Search Results - subject:"Female Headed Households"

Are female-headed households typically poorer than male-headed households in Nigeria?

Oginni, Ayodeji; Ahonsi, Babatunde; Ukwuije, Francis - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 45 (2013) C, pp. 132-137

The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by year 2015. Targeting interventions to achieve this goal is important because institutions have limited resources and would thus require to know how best to deploy these resources to combat poverty. The...

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Poverty and Productivity in Female-Headed Households in Zimbabwe

Horrell, S.; Krishnan, P. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2006

female-headed households’ productivity is lower than that found for male-headed households. General poverty alleviation …A household survey conducted in rural Zimbabwe in 2001 is used to compare the position of de facto and de jure female-headed … households to those with a male head. These households are characterised by different forms of poverty that impinge on their …

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Tenure Insecurity, Transaction Costs in the Land Lease Market and their Implications for Gendered Productivity Differentials

Holden, Stein T.; Bezabih, Mintewab - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

female-headed households. A double-moral hazard model allows us to show that landlord's tenure insecurity leads to sub …

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Poverty among women in Latin America: Feminization or over-representation?

Medeiros, Marcelo; Costa, Joana - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2006

We propose two different concepts of feminization of poverty and analyze household survey data to verify if there is an ongoing feminization of poverty in eight Latin American countries, according to each of these concepts. We also verify if our results respond to changes in values of poverty...

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Determinants of Monetary Poverty among Female-Headed Households in Benin

Attanasso, Marie-Odile - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2005

This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the Republic of Benin using data collected during the 1999 living standards measurement survey in the country's rural and urban areas. The results show that there has not been any...

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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi

Joshi, Shareen - 2004

This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate …

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Female Land Rights and Rural Household Incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru

Deere, Carmen Diana; Durán, Rosa Luz; Mardon, Merrilee; … - 2004

This paper explores the determinants of female land rights and their impact on household income levels among owner-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Previous studies in Latin America suggest that the gender of the household head is not a significant predictor of household income, not...

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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi

Joshi, Shareen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357716

Female Land Rights and Rural Household Incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru

Deere, Carmen Diana; Durán, Rosa Luz; Mardon, Merrilee; … - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2004

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Female land rights and rural household incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru

Deere, Carmen Diana; Durán, Rosa Luz; Mardon, Merrilee; … - 2004

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