respect to all agricultural activities in the household. Joint ownership of land by both men and women and the use of modern …

The present analysis seeks to build on household economics literature by focusing on who in fact has most say in … differences matter, the familiar story of a more decisive role of women in paid employment in influencing household allocation of …

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 …

relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS … in the household in the two cross sections. Child poverty rates exceed those for the whole population. The number of … children in the household depends on the number of women in child-bearing age and their distribution across this age group …

reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … current intra-household gender-disparities in getting medical care at least for life threatening illnesses …

poverty. The gender disaggregated qualitative information collected through PWBR from eight village segments of North 24 … differential gender perception resulted in different poverty statistics for men and women …

The present study contributes to the limited literature on the interlinkage between household non-farm diversification …. The results show household non-farm diversification to be a significant factor contributing to the feminization of …