In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household …" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household) achieve near Pareto efficient allocation of productive resources and Pareto … efficient allocation of consumption while households with "weaker" familial ties (e.g. an extended family household) do not. We …

The paper argues that household budgets are the best starting point for investigating a number of big questions related … associated problems of small, incomplete, and unrepresentative samples. We introduce the Historical Household Budgets (HHB …

This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits … three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the … distribution of household welfare over both short-run and long-run periods. The empirical approach uses RIF measures based on the …

of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … these changes. First, we present theory showing significant mismeasurement of welfare for households who can shift into … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …

find that through bulk purchasing the average household could spend 8.9% less on observed quantities (or consume 15.6% more …

The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middleincome countries has made it … collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over … in in-person interviews; the bias is correlated with household characteristics. While the phone survey mode provides …

Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption … vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g. by education, ethnic group, and economic activity) and we quantify the impact … mechanisms, including financial access and transfers. Country characteristics crucially determine which household-level shocks …