transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with … explanation behind these findings may be economic and cultural. Jobless growth and the lack of growth in employment sectors such … as manufacturing and services, which proved critical for female employment in other countries, weaken labor demand and …

Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …

Federation, using equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

This paper evaluates the impact of access to credit from banks and other financial institutions on household welfare in … Mauritania. Micro-level data from a 2014 household survey are used to evaluate the relationship between credit access, a range of … household characteristics, and welfare indicators. To address potential endogeneity issues, the household isolation level is …

of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places …? (both rural and urban) below the district level. The analysis disentangles the contributions household characteristics and … locations make to labor earnings, proxied by nominal household expenditure per capita. The paper shows that one-third of the …