poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households … examine the effects of the programme on 3,008 households to learn about their labour supply decisions. We find that the cash …

Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning … techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The … structural parameters of the post-double selection LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap …

Using a nationally representative household survey data set from Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence … regarding the role of financial inclusion or financial exclusion in household welfare. We first compute a multidimensional index … of financial inclusion, and then we examine the effect of financial inclusion on household welfare. The study finds that …

a bare-bone, household model that outlines the economic environment within which various types of family … microenterprises operate. It highlights a number of issues that impinge on household earnings such as the nature of the labour market … across household types as well as across different economic environments. The paper identifies several important demand and …

pro-male bias exists. That is, households favour boys in their decision whether or not to enrol a child in school in Ghana … in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys … and girls. In this paper, we interrogate this issue using individual-level data from Ghana. Methodologically, the paper …

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. …

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 …

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 …

household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female …-headed households, outcomes improved among secondary school-aged boys relative to secondary school-aged girls. By contrast, having the … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in …

This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality within households and its contribution to overall levels of … 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 …