there is a sharp gender differential in terms of poverty. Ignoring economies of scale leads to an overestimation of poverty …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 …

collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … the individual level is difficult since consumption data are typically collected at the household level. Per capita …

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 …