stated objectives of increasing marriage rates and cutting child poverty at no cost to the government. The assessment is … carried out through a structural microsimulation approach, using a dynamic model of savings, labor supply, household formation … poverty at the expense of increasing poverty among single-mother families and child deep poverty. Furthermore, the plan would …

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

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra-household … individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face … undernourished individuals are spread across the household per-capita expenditure distribution. We then quantify the extent of food …

collective model of the household in order to investigate how parents allocate household resources. We show that household … analyse these policy interventions. We end this paper by proposing such a simple and tractable model of household behaviour …

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … exploitation of the newly-digitised Board of Trade Household Expenditure Survey data set for 1953/4. Able-Smith and Townsend used …

population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …