Gender poverty differences in households are likely to affect female-headed households more than male-headed households …. This paper examined the evolution of the gender poverty rate gap and identified the factors that underlie differences in … poverty rates between female-headed households and male-headed households using the most recent representative household …

to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each …

with a set of practical tools to analyse intra-household differentiation. We feel that this is necessary if researchers are … difference affect intra-household decision-making and resource allocation. To date, development research has tended to focus on … gender. A strong literature and a wealth of approaches have been developed to assess the impact of socially determined gender …

distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic …Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 has amplified existing gender divisions that disadvantage women. What is the … over four decades of global data (n =2.85 million couple units, from 45 countries in the LIS repository) we show that intra-household …

importance in narrowing welfare gaps over time. We also found that gender of household head and education attainments matter for …In this paper, we employ stochastic dominance (SD) analysis on household unit records to measure relative welfare …