This study tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to obtain accurate … information on household income. Results show that using a husband’s estimate of his wife’s income does not produce statistically … reliable results for poverty analysis. Estimates of the wife’s income provided by the husband and wife are in agreement in only …

household head (p<0.5), gender of household head (p<0.1), age of cocoa (p<0.1), poor access to credit (p<0.1), poor collateral … model of analysis using STATA. Welfare categories were based on the relative poverty line constructed from the mean per … capita household expenditure for each season. Results revealed that male-headed households were more among the cocoa farming …

Against the background that domestic policies in Nigeria have been linked to an endemic - high, volatile and rising … food prices in Nigeria. Furthermore, the study employed estimates of policy induced price changes from estimated … cointegrating relations between commodity prices and policy variables, and demand elasticities from a system of household demand …

We investigate the effects of previous fertilizer subsidy program on local grain prices in Nigeria. The program has … effect on maize and sorghum price. In northern Nigeria, fertilizer subsidy might have lowered district level price of local …

’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. In this paper, we look at the impact of own household health expenses on malaria …, therefore avoiding the issue of identification of the proper household agricultural production function. In addition the simar … 2006 National Ugandan Household Survey. Estimation results suggest that marginal increase in the index of malaria incidence …

characteristics, we examine gender differences in the wages of the graduates of the agribusiness department. The regression analysis … women still remain present. This study provides new empirical evidence on the gender wage gap in the labor market for the …

This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and nutrition using direct indicators of empowerment … of the household as a utility maximizing unit that uses women’s status and characteristics as inputs to produce a final …

household and individual levels. This allows us to overcome a typical problem faced by gender analyses, that of only having the … sex of the household head and not the sex of the owner(s). The study explores gender differences in homeownership and …This study conducts a gender analysis of homeownership in Ecuador, drawing upon data collected through the nationally …

analyze the relative performance of groups with different male-female composition (female-dominated, mixed-gender, and male … Uganda, during two separate visits to each forest between 1993 and 2008. The analysis is conducted at two levels—the forest … forest management. The study investigates different gender composition group’s property rights to forest resources …