The Measurement of household welfare /
"The measurement of household welfare is one of the most compelling yet demanding areas in economics. To place the analysis of inequality and poverty within an economic framework where individuals are making decisions about current and lifetime incomes and expenditures is a difficult task. This...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. An introduction to applied welfare analysis / Richard Blundell, Ian Preston and Ian Walker
- 2. Measuring the cost of children: a theoretical framework / Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson
- 3. The collective approach to household behaviour / Francois Bourguignon and Pierre-Andre Chiappori
- 4. Ordinal and cardinal utility: an integration of the two dimensions of the welfare concept / Bernard M.S. Van Praag
- 5. The determination of welfare in nonintact families / Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Flinn
- 6. Female labour supply, housework and family welfare / Patricia Apps
- 7. Engel equivalence scales in Sri Lanka: exactness, specification, measurement error / Mamta Murthi
- 8. Measuring the life-cycle consumption costs of children / James Banks, Richard Blundell and Ian Preston
- 9. Family fortunes in the 1970s and 1980s / Fiona A.E. Coulter, Frank A. Cowell and Stephen P. Jenkins.
- 10. Ethically-consistent welfare prescriptions are reference price-independent / Charles Blackorby, Francois Laisney and Rolf Schmachtenberg
- 11. The effect of systematic misperception of income on the subjective poverty line / Martijn P. Tummers.