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Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by friends and neighbors have been regarded as social norms in many parts of the world for thousands of years. However, due to the reciprocal nature of gift giving, it is more burdensome for the poor to take...
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household. In line with previous evidence on gender discrimination in Albania, the results show that the female shares of … resources within the family and find evidence that the time spent abroad by the male migrant increases gender inequality (by …
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the population that is calorie deficient (FAO's prevalence of undernourishment); the prevalence of underweight in children … the prevalence of child underweight for the child undernutrition dimension, the use of the under-five mortality rate from … analyses with indicators of micronutrient deficiencies, the index is revised as follows: (1) The child underweight indicator is …
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This paper analyzes gender and ethnic differences in vulnerability and resilience to external shocks and stresses in … line are classified as highly resilient. The analysis shows that both gender and ethnicity are almost irrelevant as …
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revealed the presence of gender asymmetries stemming from men having experienced disproportionately high job losses. In this … role in explaining the gender differences in unpaid work time changes. In turn, varied shifts in the household structure …
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aim of this paper is to extend this approach by introducing a gender perspective in the analysis of policy effects. We use …, Finland and Sweden. Second, we estimate the policy effects for men and women in couples. To obtain gender specific effects, we …
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This paper analyzes gender differences in vulnerability and resilience to shocks, including climate change and climate …
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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. …
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-household inequalities. Besides, by definition, households containing both a female and a male cannot contribute to a gender gap, so gender … differentials cannot be estimated. But, the Sustainable Development Goals have put special emphasis on gender equality along their … targets; therefore, new measures able to capture the gender differences are needed. Consequently, in this paper, we propose an …
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This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy...
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