Consumption, Health, Gender, and Poverty

Standard methods of measuring poverty assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods provide only limited insight into male and female poverty separa...

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Main Authors:	Case, Anne, Deaton, Angus
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	CONSUMPTION PATTERNS HEALTH ASPECTS OF POVERTY GENDER GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY LINE GENDER DISCREPANCIES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS EXPENDITURE PATTERNS FAMILY INCOME HOUSEHOLD DATA POVERTY & GENDER HEALTH IMPACTS ABORTION ADULT FEMALES ADULT MALE ADULT MALES ADULTS AGE GROUPS AGED ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES DAY CARE DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE DEPRESSION DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIES OF SCALE ELDERLY PEOPLE EQUIVALENCE SCALES EXPENDITURE DATA EXPENDITURES FAMILIES FAMILY SIZE FEMALES FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD EXPENDITURES GENDER GIRLS HEADCOUNT POVERTY RATES HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HYPERTENSION ILLITERACY INCOME INDIVIDUAL LEVEL ISOLATION LABOR FORCE LIFE EXPECTANCY MALES MEASURED POVERTY MEASURING POVERTY MORTALITY MOTIVATION PARENTS POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRIVATE GOODS PUBLIC GOODS RURAL SECTOR SEX SHADOW PRICES SIBLINGS WALKING HEALTH IMPACTS ABORTION
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