Household Behaviour, Equivalence Scales, Welfare and Poverty

Chapter 1 Equivalence Scales Based on Collective Household Models

Chapter 2 Welfare Comparisons Among Individuals Under Samuelson’s Model of Households

Chapter 3 Equivalence Scales: A Fresh Look at an Old Problem. Theory and Empirical Evidence

Chapter 4 An “Endogenous Dummy Variable” Estimator of Women’s Opportunity Costs of Children in Italy

Chapter 5 Equivalence Scales, Horizontal Equity and Horizontal Inequity

Chapter 6 Equivalence Scales and Taxation: A Simulation Analysis

Chapter 8 Estimation of the Sharing Rule between Adults and Children and Related Equivalence Scales within a Collective Consumption Framework

Chapter 9 Drug Consumption and Intra-Household Distribution of Resources: The Case of Qat in an African Society

Chapter 10 Estimation of Unit Values in Cross Sections without Quantity Information and Implications for Demand and Welfare Analysis

Chapter 11 Analysis and Measurement of Poverty. Univariate and Multivariate Approaches and Their Policy Implications. A Case Study: Italy

Chapter 12 Using Equivalence Scales as Spatial Deflators: Evidence in Inter-Household Welfare Regional Comparisons from Italian HBS Micro-Data