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This paper describes the gaps and limitations in the data available on urban populations for many low- and middle-income nations and how this limits the accuracy of international comparisons - for instance of levels of urbanization and of the size of city populations. It also discusses how the...
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in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys …
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This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the … spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective model and discusses its relevance to analysing intra-household …
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This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the...
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Diversification of household activities away from agriculture is a key characteristic of economic development. We … diversification is, on average, welfare enhancing and that the most beneficial form of diversification is into household enterprises …
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An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency …. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial …. -- household efficiency ; intra-household models ; experimental games ; Ethiopia …
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investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … impacts household welfare, agricultural income, and farm revenue, and recommends inter alia households' diversification of …
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The present study aims to explore economic and socio-demographic factors that influence the household's probability to … studied region. The research shows that income, firewood, and kerosene prices, age of household heads, their educational level …
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We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …
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household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in …
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