Brazil’s inequalities in welfare and poverty between and within regions can be accounted by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. Using Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally representative household survey data (2002-03 POF), this paper finds that household attributes account for most of ...

OBJECTIVES This cross-national study examines the poverty of older adults and their household members and relates the risk of poverty to macrolevel state approaches to welfare as well as to microlevel composition of households. METHODS Data on individuals in households with older adults for 22 countries come from the Luxembourg Income Survey. Robust cluster analysis relates the risk of povert...

the present research measures the household budget of 623 families residing in tehran with the aim of finding out the quality of the family welfare. while at the macro level, social welfare as a new concept is the product of the industrial society, at the micro level, it is accessible through promotion of the household budget. the study employs both qualitative and quantitative research methods...

U rban poverty has long been a concern of urban and development debates, and has been an important focus in social science research. Informal settlement in Mashhad city is highlighted because of its wide spreading and severity. This study aimed to determine the causes of urban poverty in informal settlement regions. The data were collected from household level questionnaire in 2016 a...

Title of Document: INTRAHOUSEHOLD RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN’S WELFARE Samia Mahbub Ahmad, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Directed By: Associate Professor, Sonalde Desai, Department of Sociology This study is an analytical and empirical assessment of the impact of household structures on children’s welfare using household level data from South Africa. Specifically, ...

Previous analyses of demand systems and the welfare effects of taxing male and female labour supplies suppress the analysis of household resource allocation by assuming a household utility function. This paper shows that this is only permissible if the household allocates income exactly in accordance with the distributional parameters of the usual kind of individualistic social welfare function...

We study the problem of risk sharing within a household facing subjective uncertainty. A household shares uncertain prospects using a social welfare function. We characterize the social welfare functions such that the household is collectively less risk averse than each member, and satisfies the Pareto principle and an independence axiom. We single out the sum of certainty equivalents as the un...