TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Calvi, Rossella
AU  - Penglase, Jacob
AU  - Tommasi, Denni
AU  - Wolf, Alexander
        TI  - The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families
        PY  - 2020/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13948
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13948
        AB  - The structure of a family may have important consequences for the material well-being of its members. For example, in large families, an individual must share resources with many others, but she may benefit from economies of scale in consumption. In this paper, we study individual consumption in different types of households, with a focus on family structures that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take into account both dimensions.
        KW  - Barten scales
KW  - scale economies
KW  - resource shares
KW  - household bargaining
KW  - collective model
KW  - indifference scales
KW  - poverty
        ER  -