POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLD SIZE
POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLD SIZE
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DOI：
10.2307/2235108
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发表时间：
1995-11-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
RAVALLION, M
中科院分区：
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作者：
LANJOUW, P;RAVALLION, M
人们普遍认为，在发展中国家，大家庭往往更贫穷，这一观点影响了研究和政策。消费中的规模经济的范围告诫人们不要持这种观点。我们发现，贫困和规模之间的相关性消失时，在巴基斯坦的生活成本的规模弹性约为0.6。这是一个修正版的食物份额法设定的尺度所隐含的弹性。相比之下，儿童营养状况的一些措施表明统一的弹性。考虑到儿童福利相对于成人福利的重要性，可能有助于解决贫困人口结构不健全的问题。
The widely held view that larger families tend to be poorer in developing countries has influenced research and policy. The scope for size economies in consumption cautions against this view. We find that the correlation between poverty and size vanishes in Pakistan when the size elasticity of the cost of living is about 0.6. This turns out to be the elasticity implied by a modified version of the food share method of setting scales. By contrast, some measures of child nutritional status indicate an elasticity of unify. Consideration of the weight attached to child versus adult welfare may help resolve the non-robustness of demographic profiles of poverty.