there is a sharp gender differential in terms of poverty. Ignoring economies of scale leads to an overestimation of poverty …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 …

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 …

reveal that gender of the household head matters in adaptation to climate-induced shocks. Specific differences were found …This paper hypothesizes that adaptation to climate change is influenced by the gender of the decision maker of the … household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male …

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. …

Poverty declined substantially in Mozambique between 1996/97 and 2014/15. However, the recent economic crisis …, characterized by a significant increase in domestic prices, may have dragged several households into poverty. Using consumer price … index and 2014/15 household budged survey data, we calculate that the cost of purchasing a basic basket may have risen …

effect of the reform on household poverty and inequality. Analysis is based on the Ghana Microsimulation Model which has the … key determinant of better livelihoods and poverty alleviation. However, in most developing countries education is not …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

This paper analyses the evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda between 2001/1 and 2010/11, using three comparable … good quality household surveys analysed along with detailed price data. Rwanda achieved impressive growth over this period …. The first half of the 2000s was associated with slow poverty reduction and an increase in inequality, while in the second …

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 …