household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional …Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from … joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and …

.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is … validates the preference-similarity assumption. The model leads to accurate measures of child and adult poverty, indicating the …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data …