simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls …. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school, spent more time at school, and faced a reduced time burden in …

link urban and rural nodes, children have remained less urbanized than adults, and many grow up without co-resident parents …. Although children are clearly affected by adult labour migration, they have tended to be ignored in the migration discourse. A … focus on children provides an unusual lens for considering migration dynamics and can help to advance an understanding of …

-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Previous studies in Latin America suggest that the gender of the household head is not a …This paper explores the determinants of female land rights and their impact on household income levels among owner … significant predictor of household income, not unsurprising given the ambiguities with which self-declared headship is associated …

earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not …The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … the number and ages of children requires us to look for other explanations, and we argue that these can be found in the …

Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between …

households with unpaid work entirely delegated to women and children and men undertaking only paid work. Women's simultaneous … study analyses women's time use patterns and children's nutritional outcomes. We also analyze infrastructural and service … women's unpaid work and increases the leisure of all members of the household. …

indicators: nutrition, birth registration, school attendance, and time spent doing work and chores (working hours), with data … obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in …