Most poverty measures are based on household-level measures of resources and identify “poor individuals” in accordance with the poverty status of their households – regardless of their age and gender. However, an increasing body of research estimates resource allocation within households and individual poverty by combining structural models of household decision-making with household survey data where at least some parts of consumption can be “assigned” to individuals.
This event will summarize the results from a joint project between the World Bank and the Institute for Fiscal Studies to operationalize model-based estimates of individual poverty and initiate a discussion on directions for future research.
Opening Remarks:
Calogero Carletto, Manager, Development Data Group
Caren Grown, Senior Director, Gender Group
Carolina Sánchez-Páramo, Global Director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice
Keynote:
Pierre-André Chiappori, E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Presenters:
Isis Gaddis, Senior Economist, Gender Group
Talip Kilic, Senior Economist, Development Data Group
Krishna Pendakur, Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University
Panelists:
Kathleen Beegle, Lead Economist, Gender Group
Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Senior Adviser, Development Research Group
Susan Himmelweit, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Open University
Valérie Lechene, Associate Professor, University College London