Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within-household … allocations, can be identified from data on household consumption and labor supply. We also argue that a measure based on …

obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …

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 …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of … intra household allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within household …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

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 …