-level household datasets from a range of countries in Africa, we examine the drivers of agricultural risks, while exploring the role … of context as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household welfare, with a focus on farm households relative … to their non-farm counterparts. We demonstrate that the probability of experiencing risks related to agriculture is …

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 examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …

the collective household model, we examine the possibility that men within couples use polygyny as a threat to influence …

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 …

that intra-household bargaining may be related to the effect of crises on men and women. Specifically, women who have sole … district consumption compared with women without sole decision-making power on employment prior to the crisis. …This paper discusses whether the Asian financial crisis affected men and women differently in Indonesia by estimating …

Tanzania, in which we vary the relative bargaining power between spouses. The paper provides two main insights. First …

design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …Tanzania has experienced relatively strong and stable economic growth accompanied by social stability over the past two … impacted disproportionately by the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper interrogates Tanzania …

Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to … grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social … protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women. Drawing on a scoping review of diverse evidence …

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 …Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning …