Household Behaviour, Prices, and Welfare A Collection of Essays Including Selected Empirical Studies /

• Main Author: Ray, Ranjan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Themes in Economics, Theory, Empirics, and Policy
• Subjects: Welfare economics.; Social policy.; Development economics.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; Social Policy.; Development Economics.

This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare. Prices play a key role in several of the essays, particularly the distributional implications of price movements, and the effects of changes in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book sho...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Alternative Approaches to Measurement of Price Movements
• Chapter 3 Welfare Applications of Concepts Used in Price Measurement
• Chapter 4 Selected Empirical Studies on Prices and their Welfare Applications
• Chapter 5 Calculation of National and Subnational PPPs
• Chapter 6 Using PPPs in Calculation of Global and Regional Poverty Rates
• Chapter 7 Multidimensional Poverty Measurement- Methodology and Selected Empirical Applications
• Chapter 8 Dynamic Extensions of Multidimensional Poverty Measure with Selected Empirical Applications
• Chapter 9 Selected Service Delivery Schemes in India
• Chapter 10 Summary and Conclusion.