insights from poverty analysis and urban economics, and develops a methodology to assess spatial performance with a high degree … of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to "places …" (both rural and urban) below the district level. The analysis disentangles the contributions household characteristics and …

overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …

Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household … arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single … current design of anti-poverty income programs, and that the introduction of an EITC deduction on the earnings of secondary …

over four decades of global data (n =2.85 million couple units, from 45 countries in the LIS repository) we show that intra-household … earnings inequality within a household is systemic, prevalent across disparate societies, and across the entire earnings … distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic …

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 …