Decomposition of Household Expenditure and Child Welfare in Rural Ethiopia CSAE WPS/2003-09 Bereket Kebede Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD), ESRC Research Group, University of Bath and Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University August 2003 JEL Classification: D12, D13 Key words: Ethiopia; intra-household allocation; child health Acknowledgement: This working paper draws from my DPhil thesis. I am very grateful to my supervisors Paul Collier, Pramila Krishnan, Jan Gunning and Marcel Fafchamps for their intellectual guidance at different stages of my studies at Oxford. Corresponding Author: Bereket Kebede, Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD), ESRC Research Group, 3 East 2.10, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom; Email address: b.kebede@bath.ac.uk