With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya … revenues does not affect household food security, it has a negative marginal effect on dietary quality. We demonstrate that the …

Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary … household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis. The main findings suggest that women's labor allocation to economic … activities is comparable to that of men. Household chores and care work are women's responsibility, which they perform with …

's awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality between boys and girls at the household level. We estimate these effects … of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women … using three rounds of longitudinal data of rural households in Pakistan. We use both household and year fixed effects to …

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … modelling and numerical simulations based on survey data, that household income is a poor indicator of household well-being. …

of women in providing food and nutrition security at the household and individual level needs to be examined, if the …

Fostering gender inclusion can have positive impacts on the food systems' triple challenge of ensuring food security …-disaggregated information is not collected. This report calls for the development of better evidence on gender and food systems as a necessary … first step in the path towards gender equality. Based on OECD countries’ experiences, it provides a roadmap to identify and …

Virtually all models of the household assume that the allocation of resources is Pareto efficient. Within many African … households, agricultural production occurs on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Pareto efficiency … are farmed much less intensively than similar plots within the household controlled by men. The estimates imply that about …