Brown, Caitlin S. <br/><br/>
Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households?  Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa / 
Caitlin S. Brown, Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2017. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w24047 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w24047. .
<br/><br/> November 2017. 
<br/><br/> Antipoverty policies assume that targeting poor households suffices in reaching poor individuals. We question this assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely across the household wealth and consumption distributions. Roughly three-quarters of underweight women and undernourished children are not found in the poorest 20% of households, and around half are not found in the poorest 40%. Countries with higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are consistent with intra-household inequality but other factors also appear to be at work including common health risks. 
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