Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/251450 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1157
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their reduced ability to share goods within the household. This disadvantage is important to estimate and embed in standard analysis, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research on the role of subsistence incomes of different household types in utility functions may shed light on explanations for poverty and may guide anti-poverty policies.
Subjects: 
equivalent incomes
household-size economies
inequality
demographics and poverty
child costs
Generalized Equivalence Scale Exactness
JEL: 
I32
D14
D63
D15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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