other two decisions. This contradirectional gender bias is unique to Bangladesh and partly explained by the presence of …One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals−gender parity in all levels of education−is widely considered to … have been attained. However, measuring gender parity only through school enrollment is misleading, as girls may lag behind …

suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …

field, I study how perceived abilities and gender stereotypes shape intra-household dynamics. I use an incentivized decision …-making game with 525 married couples from 42 rural villages in Bangladesh to investigate whether women are discriminated against … the experiment, women in treated couples report being more involved in household decisions. These results suggest that …

collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while … necessarily match household per capita expenditure, Bangladesh …A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia …

Collective models have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective … models are built for fixed sets of household members and accommodate diversity in household structures with difficulty …. Individual-level data on food consumption from Bangladesh provides an opportunity to build a parsimonious model that applies …