Intrahousehold distribution and poverty: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni and Prudence Kwenda

Journal of Development Economics, 2014, vol. 107, issue C, 262-276

Abstract: Poverty measures often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we estimate the allocation process and adult economies of scale in households from Côte d'Ivoire using a collective model of household consumption. Identification relies on the observation of adult-specific goods, as in the Rothbarth method, and a joint estimation on couples and singles. Our results show that men and women's shares of total expenditure are of the same order of magnitude and children's shares are small. Scale economies are large and affect poverty measures.

Keywords: Collective model; Engel curves; Rothbarth Method; Sharing rule; Scale economies; Equivalence scales; Indifference scales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 D12 I31 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Intrahousehold distribution and poverty: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire (2014)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.12.008

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