Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence about their effects. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals with regard to their poverty status. Using a novel survey for Senegal in which consumption data were collected at a disaggregated level, this paper quantifies these various effects. In total, two opposing effects, one on mean and one on inequality, compensate each other in terms of the overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities account for 14 percent of inequality in Senegal. This study has also uncovered the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty.

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塞内加尔的不平等，贫困与家庭内部消费分配

家庭内部的不平等长期以来一直是政策设计的关注点，但很少有证据表明其影响。当前忽略家庭内部不平等现象的做法可能导致对整体不平等现象和贫困水平的低估，以及导致某些人关于其贫困状况的错误分类。使用针对塞内加尔的新颖调查（该调查以分类的水平收集了消费数据），本文对这些各种影响进行了量化。总体而言，两种对立的影响，一种对均值的影响和一种对不平等的影响，在总体贫困率方面相互补偿，但个别贫困状况受到影响。家庭内部消费不平等占塞内加尔不平等的14％。