This paper compares the poverty rates of male- and female-headed households in Pakistan and, also, in South Africa. It finds that in South Africa, female-headed households are unconditionally poorer than the others. In Pakistan, however, this result holds only in the presence of economies of...

This paper analyses India's food expenditure recognizing regional differences in preferences and prices. The results reveal large regional differences in expenditure pattern implying that nutrient enhancing programmes must recognize this diversity. Household composition is an important...

Economic analysis of household behaviour, usually, assumes that household size and composition are fixed and exogenous. This study departs from this practice by analysing resource and household compositional variables, using an interdependent framework that treats them as jointly endogenous. The...