Project Title: From Household Allocations to Global Inequality: New Methods, Facts and Policy Implications
Project Description: To understand and mitigate economic inequalities within households, yet, in most empirical studies, such intra-households inequalities are disregarded mainly because we lack appropriate measurement tools and data. Not only is this problematic for inequality measurement, but lack of understanding also hampers the design of cost-effective poverty reduction and child development policies. This project has five general objectives. First, to update the facts about local and global inequalities through direct measurement intra-household consumption allocations. Second, to... To understand and mitigate economic inequalities within households, yet, in most empirical studies, such intra-households inequalities are disregarded mainly because we lack appropriate measurement tools and data. Not only is this problematic for inequality measurement, but lack of understanding also hampers the design of cost-effective poverty reduction and child development policies. This project has five general objectives. First, to update the facts about local and global inequalities through direct measurement intra-household consumption allocations. Second, to develop and validate novel measures of parental allocation preferences and use these to study whether mothers prefer to spend more on children than Fathers. Third, to develop and validate novel measures of household decision-making and use these to investigate whether targeted transfers shape women empowerment. Fourth, to study whether cash transfers or an educational parenting program is most cost-effective for child development. Fifth, use an integrated framework and the new tools and data, to test structural model assumptions and to refine our understanding of the mechanisms behind inequalities and child development.
Principal Investigator : Ester Elisaria
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Time frame: (2022-08-01) - (2027-07-31)
The University of Birmingham (Normal)
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL EXECUTIVE AGENCY (ERCEA) (Normal)
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