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 …

This paper examines empirically the effect of social capital, measured by household membership in community … standard information on household welfare with multidimensional measures of social capital, the paper attempts to address three … challenges in the empirical estimation of the effect of social capital on household welfare: 1) the differential effects of …