Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps … in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys … explores two potential sources of gender bias: bias in the decision to enrol/keep boys and girls in school; and bias in the …

simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …

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 …

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …

household. In line with previous evidence on gender discrimination in Albania, the results show that the female shares of … resources within the family and find evidence that the time spent abroad by the male migrant increases gender inequality (by …

analysis finds that gender differences in mean leisure time can be attributed to household members, affecting the leisure time … household and highlight the lack of intra-household bargaining power for women, providing evidence of gender inequality. Lower …This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the …

structural parameters of the post-double selection LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences …

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 … marriages, strategic investment, gender norms, and extended households play in the attainment of efficiency. …

This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in … that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to engage in employment outside the household and more likely to … engage in household chores relative to men. This is probably the result of the environmental degradation that accompanied the …

that intra-household bargaining may be related to the effect of crises on men and women. Specifically, women who have sole …