CHILDREN'S RESOURCES, WELL-BEING AND SOCIAL PROTECTION: EVIDENCE FROM ETHIOPIA

The bargaining power of children has long been neglected in the literature since children have been considered as public or private goods for their parents. Given that they do not enter households by choice and generally bring little to household resources, children could be the most vulnerable to intrahousehold inequality although they may benefit from parental altruism. Recent collective household consumption models help recover the sharing rules of children using observation of some exclusive, privately-assigned expenditure and distribution factors. The sharing rules of children can then be used to analyze their monetary poverty. As well-being is multidimensional, it is also imperative to look at deprivations in other dimensions including health, nutrition, education and living standards. From a policy perspective as well, the role of social protection in affecting children's decisions and well-being is worth researching since understanding the responses to a program in terms of those outcomes provides com