individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face …Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra … significant probabilities of living in poverty even in households with per-capita expenditure above the poverty threshold …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … that the direction of the bias depends on how these measures use individual data to determine the poverty status of …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources will ultimately be passed on to adult children in … of adult children is through transfers and bequests and about 85 percent is through the intergenerational correlation in … the number of children. We compare our estimates to the implications of alternative computable benchmark models of savings …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …