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The paper examines the linkages between gender of household heads, education and household poverty in Nigeria between … analysis was used to examine the relationships between gender, poverty and other household variables, including education, for … reducing fertility levels since poverty was higher in larger households. – gender ; education ; poverty ; Nigeria ; households …
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household head gender and household area (rural and urban households). Results indicate that policies aiming to improve border … Nigeria. It starts by describing the income distribution in the Nigerian states contained in the sample. It then analyses the … relationship between income, household food expenditures, and household expenditures on imported rice. it is aimed at assessing how …
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This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank’s General Household Survey for Nigeria … index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO groupings of food intake within the household. Accounting for … regression, we find that increases in empowerment are positively associated with household dietary diversity. Overall, household …
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bezweifeln ist demnach das gängige Klischee, dass das Geschlecht generell eine wichtige Einflussgröße bei Anlageentscheidungen …
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mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males … and females. Moreover, in some countries results show convergence between cohort and gender specific travel demand: women … ever before. Do these developments hold also for Germany? Based on socio-economic and demographic analysis of gender …
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considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …
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In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …
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Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy … income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some …
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-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet … exacerbate these problems. By calling attention to growing household vulnerability to energy and water insecurities, particularly …
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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR …
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