ISBN: 3790801089
TITLE: Household Behaviour, Equivalence, Welfare and Poverty
AUTHOR: Dagum, Ferrari
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Foreword v
Equivalence Scales Based on Collective Household Models
Arthur Lewbel 1
Welfare Comparisons Among Individuals Under Samuelson's Model of Households
Eugenio Peluso and Alain Trannoy 11
Equivalence Scales: A Fresh Look at an Old Problem. Theory and Empirical Evidence
Gustavo De Santis and Mauro Maltagliati 29
An "Endogenous Dummy Variable" Estimator of Women's Opportunity Costs of Children in Italy
Antonino Di Pino and Massimo Mucciardi 55
Equivalence Scales, Horizontal Equity and Horizontal Inequity
Peter J. Lambert 75
Equivalence Scales and Taxation: A Simulation Analysis
John Muellbauer and Justin van de Ven 85
Analysis of Resource Inflows and Their Impact on Household Behaviour: Evidence from South Africa
Pushkar Maitra and Ranjan Ray 107
Estimation of the Sharing Rule between Adults and Children and Related Equivalence Scales within a Collective Consumption Framework
Carlos Arias, Vincenzo Atella, Raffaella Castagnini and Federico Perali 129
Drug Consumption and Intra-Household Distribution of Resources: The Case of Qat in an African Society
Sara Borelli and Federico Perali 163
Estimation of Unit Values in Cross Sections without Quantity Information and Implications for Demand and Welfare Analysis
Vincenzo Atella, Martina Menon and Federico Perali 195
Analysis and Measurement of Poverty. Univariate and Multivariate Approaches and Their Policy Implications. A Case Study: Italy
Camilo Dagum and Michele Costa 221
Using Equivalence Scales as Spatial Deflators: Evidence in Inter-Household Welfare Regional Comparisons from Italian HBS Micro-Data
Guido Ferrari 273
Authors List and Addresses 295
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