This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …

cultural contexts of household economy, particularly women's roles in it, goes back to my childhood in Tehran, Iran, where I …

-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 …