We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a … collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources … among household members is related to the measurement of household welfare and intra-household inequality. We show that in a …

terms of the overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities … organization are key correlates of intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to …