Income sources, intrahousehold allocation and individual poverty

Policies aimed at redistributing to the most vulnerable individuals must consider inequality within households as much between households. In that spirit, many cash transfers are targeted women rather than men. Tax legislations can also contain specific gender provisions treat men and differently. Whether these policies operate some intrahousehold redistribution, or defeated by household agency problem, is an open question. This paper provides new insights adapting models of allocation account for women's men's net-of-tax earnings benefits determinants resource sharing function. We suggest applications using expenditure data Argentina South Africa. Net-of-tax commanded often positively related their children's resources. provide counterfactual simulations illustrate how financial power – its sources may modify consumption share thus individual poverty status.