»Title Household Welfare and Poverty
»Author Camilo Dagum e Guido Ferrari (Editors)
»Publisher Physica Verlag Springer – Contributions to statistics series –
»Web site [ see here ]
»ISBN 3-7908-0108-9, Publish year: 2003
»Pages xvi + 296
»Abstract The book presents a quantitative analysis of household income distribution, welfare, poverty, cost of raising children, and taxation problems. The innovative construction of equivalence scales as an instrument for the assessment of these variables allows a unified treatment of households of different sizes and age composition with the aim of advancing meaningful and relevant research on welfare, taxation, and poverty. Each chapter of the book offers a self-contained theoretical and methodological presentation, enhanced with applications to real-life case studies.
Written for:
Socio-economic researchers, policy-makers
Keywords:
Equivalence Scales
Income Distribution
Welfare
Poverty
Household Behaviour Taxation
»Table of contents

Foreword

Arthur Lewbel Equivalence Scales Based on Collective Household Models
Eugenio Peluso
Alain Trannoy
Welfare Comparisons Among Individuals Under Samuelson's Model of Households
Gustavo De Santis
Mauro Maltagliati

Equivalence Scales: A Fresh Look at an Old Problem. Theory and Empirical Evidence
Antonino Di Pino
Massimo Mucciardi
An "Endogenous Dummy Variable" Estimator of Women's Opportunity Costs of Children in Italy
Peter J. Lambert Equivalence Scales, Horizontal Equity and Horizontal Inequity
John Muellbauer
Justin van de Ven
Equivalence Scales and Taxation: A Simulation Analysis
Pushkar Maitra
Ranjan Ray
Analysis of Resource Inflows and Their Impact on Household Behaviour: Evidence from South Africa
Carlos Arias
Vincenzo Atella,
Raffaella Castagnini
Federico Perali
Estimation of the Sharing Rule between Adults and Children and Related Equivalence Scales within a Collective Consumption Framework
Sara Borelli
Federico Perali
Drug Consumption and Intra-Household Distribution of Resources: The Case of Qat in an African Society
Vincenzo Atella
Martina Menon
Federico Perali
Estimation of Unit Values in Cross Sections without Quantity Information and Implications for Demand and Welfare Analysis
Camilo Dagum
Michele Costa
Analysis and Measurement of Poverty. Univariate and Multivariate Approaches and Their Policy Implications. A Case Study: Italy
Guido Ferrari Using Equivalence Scales as Spatial Deflators: Evidence in Inter-Household Welfare Regional Comparisons from Italian HBS Micro-Data
Authors List and Addresses