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The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa : a gender comparison
Harrichurran, Priyanka; Vermaak, Claire; Muller, Colette - 2021
This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the … provides insights into market behaviour and physical and mental health. Household composition and leisure consumption are … shows that leisure time allocations are highly dependent on who lives in the household and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428167
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Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households : evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme
Sebastian, Ashwini; De la O Campos, Ana Paula; Daidone, … - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540156
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Labour market projections and time allocation in Myanmar : application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
Jensen, Henning Tarp; Keogh-Brown, Marcus; Tarp, Finn - 2021
model for Myanmar to analyse the economic and household income distribution impacts of a combined child work elimination and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798598
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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana
Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428169
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Intra-household inequalities in child rights and well-being : a barrier to progress?
Rodriguez Takeuchi, Laura - 2015
obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467085
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Assessing the impact of social grants on inequality : a South African case study
Schiel, Reinhard; Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Lam, David - 2014
per capita household income, the introduction and expansion of social grants has helped alleviate the inherited burden of … grants in inequality reduction remains unclear. We use national household survey data from 1993 and 2008 and the major income … equalizing effect. More recent decomposition techniques allow us to net out the effect of changes in household composition on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438942
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Measuring earnings inequality in South Africa using household survey and administrative tax microdata
Kerr, Andrew - 2021
of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513141
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Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling : imputing employment income in Tanzania and Zambia
McLennan, David; Noble, Michael; Wright, Gemma Clare; … - 2021
The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608576
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Income diversification and household welfare in Tanzania 2008-13
Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver - 2020
from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household … increasing household consumption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268209
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Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique? : accounting for underreported consumption
Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi - 2017
Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully … underreporting by aligning consumption derived from Mozambican household surveys with national accounts. Consumption in categories … most consumed by wealthy households is more frequently underreported, and therefore scaling household level consumption by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672550