Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65924 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2012-10
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
To measure poverty, incomes must be equivalized across households with different structures. In this paper, we use a very flexible ordered response model to analyze the relationship be- tween income, demographic structure and subjective assessments of financial wellbeing drawn from the 1991-2008 British Household Panel Survey. Our results suggest the existence of large scale economies within marital/cohabiting couples, but substantial diseconomies from the addition of children or further adults. This pattern contrasts sharply with commonly-used equivalence scales, and is consistent with explanations in terms of the capital requirements associated with additions to the core couple.
Subjects: 
equivalence scales
subjective wellbeing
JEL: 
I32
J12
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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