existence of alternative definitions of household headship; and the existence of different analytical purposes of using the … concept of household headship and the need for using appropriate headship definitions for each purpose …

This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the … among female household heads was lower than that of their male-headed counterparts, but in some cities the poverty gap was …

, such results are somewhat sensitive to assumptions about economies of scale in household consumption. More disaggregated …

. Seven rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) are used to investigate the role that household living …

The gender of the household head has often been treated as an exogenous determinant of homeownership. This paper argues … that several determinants of homeownership also affect household headship and that failing to explicitly account for this …) have a greater probability of attaining homeownership. Thus household level analysis should control for the endogeneity of …