and increase household welfare by reducing poverty, especially for women and children. I also show that when the mother …This paper estimates a structural model of household behavior in the presence of cash transfers to recover the amount … of resources allocated to men, women, and children. Using data from Ecuador, I find that there are important intra-household …

-2016 poverty analysis study, by taking a closer look at some of the household-level welfare trends between 2011 and 2016 … underperformed. Poverty in Ethiopia deceased substantially over the past decade, although by less than what would have been expected …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … poverty effects of policy shocks can be very large.This paper - a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World … Bank Institute - is part of a larger effort in the institute to evaluate poverty and the distributional effects of poverty …

household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian …