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Household Behaviour, Equivalence Scales, Welfare and Poverty

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Camilo Dagum

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche “P. Fortunati”, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  2. Guido Ferrari

    1. Dipartimento di Statistica “G. Parenti”, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

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  • Thorough and innovative contribution to the construction of equivalence scales as an instrument for the assessment of tax fairness, income inequality, family consumption, poverty measurement, cost of raising children, and household welfare
  • Each chapter presents a self-contained development of the subject matter and applies it to a case study
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Contributions to Statistics (CONTRIB.STAT.)

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Equivalence Scales Based on Collective Household Models

    • Arthur Lewbel
    Pages 1-9

  3. Welfare Comparisons Among Individuals Under Samuelson’s Model of Households

    • Eugenio Peluso, Alain Trannoy
    Pages 11-27

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

    • Gustavo De Santis, Mauro Maltagliati
    Pages 29-53

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

    • Antonino Di Pino, Massimo Mucciardi
    Pages 55-74

  6. Equivalence Scales, Horizontal Equity and Horizontal Inequity

    • Peter J. Lambert
    Pages 75-84

  7. Equivalence Scales and Taxation: A Simulation Analysis

    • John Muellbauer, Justin van de Ven
    Pages 85-106

  8. Analysis of Resource Inflows and Their Impact on Household Behaviour: Evidence from South Africa

    • Pushkar Maitra, Ranjan Ray
    Pages 107-127

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

    • Carlos Arias, Vincenzo Atella, Raffaella Castagnini, Federico Perali
    Pages 129-161

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

    • Sara Borelli, Federico Perali
    Pages 163-194

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

    • Vincenzo Atella, Martina Menon, Federico Perali
    Pages 195-220

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

    • Camilo Dagum, Michele Costa
    Pages 221-271

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

    • Guido Ferrari
    Pages 273-294

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 295-296
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A group of scholars converging on a common and socially relevant economic theme of research, that of households' welfare and poverty, met several times in the last two years to discuss the research progress and the opportunity to bring to­ gether for publication the research so far accomplished. They shared a research project supported by a grant from the former Italian Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST) now Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR): The Equiva­ lence Scales in the Measurement of Households' Welfare: Statistical, Economic and Demographic Analysis. The decisive meeting, an international seminar on the topics, was hosted by the University of Florence, siege of the national coordinator of this project. When one think of Florence, it is inevitable to think of the unfolding of Ren­ aissance, and reciprocally. th To the eyes of a traveller who had arrived to Florence in the 15 century, the city would have appeared as a sort of El Dorado, similarly to what would have occurred to the first conquerors of the South America's lands, so much astonishing were the richness of arts and the opulence of life. The flourishing of painting and sculpture had not equal all over the world and was reaching tops never made equal before. Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello and later on Leonardo and Michelangelo, were the artistic and intellectual genius that enlightened beauty lovers princes.....

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche “P. Fortunati”, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Camilo Dagum

  • Dipartimento di Statistica “G. Parenti”, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

    Guido Ferrari

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