Replication data for: Children's Resources in Collective Households: Identification, Estimation, and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi

Name: Replication data for: Children's Resources in Collective Households: Identification, Estimation, and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi
Published: 2013-02-01
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Keywords: Survey data

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Geoffrey R. Dunbar; Arthur Lewbel; Krishna Pendakur

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Project Description

Summary: The share of household resources devoted to children is hard to identify because consumption is measured at the household level and goods can be shared. Using semiparametric restrictions on individual preferences within a collective model, we identify how total household resources are divided up among household members by observing how each family member's expenditures on a single private good like clothing vary with income and family size. Using data from Malawi we show how resources devoted to wives and children vary by family size and structure, and we find that standard poverty indices understate the incidence of child poverty. (JEL I31, I32, J12, J13, O12, O15)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Survey data

JEL Classification:
      I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
      I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

Geographic Coverage: Malawi

Universe: All households in Malawi

Data Type(s): survey data

Collection Notes: Enumerated, stratified random sample of 11,280 households.

Methodology

Data Source: Malawi National Statistics Office and the World Bank

Unit(s) of Observation: Individual, Household

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