Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …

This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …

decisions to analyze how the design of a privatized pension system affects gender pension gaps. Chile has one of the longest … countries and was reformed in 2008 to alleviate old- age poverty and reduce gender pension gaps. The paper estimates the dynamic … impacts. The analysis finds that household structure is an important determinant of the behavioral and distributional impacts …

household composition, gender power dynamics, disability, care responsibilities, marital arrangements, intrahousehold …This paper assesses how household context and characteristics shape the welfare trajectory and more specifically the … social assistance program. The analysis is based on a unique data set combining panel household survey data with in …

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms … of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work …