This paper relates indicators of household financial stress to household income and expenditure with the objective of … identifying household stress thresholds and comparable equivalence scales. A model is proposed whereby households try to absorb … Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Households have different capacities to absorb a shock or shift, with …

from the 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We are particularly interested in the way in which specific …

of REI on household incomes and evaluate its effects with respect to poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. The …

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 …

measures of consumption and income from household surveys. Using a new compilation of more than 2,000 household surveys matched … established. Means of household consumption estimated from surveys are, on average, 20 percentlower than corresponding means from …

Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …

household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … data from the 2012 Indian Human Development Survey to create a standard household-based MPIs closely related to the MPI … household-based measure. Similarly, the age differentials in poverty are much larger using the individual-based measure. Using a …

This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the … among female household heads was lower than that of their male-headed counterparts, but in some cities the poverty gap was …