insurance purchase decisions. Indeed, only a few papers have tried to justify rigorously the gender-based differences in life …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

The decision-making processes and outcomes of male and female household heads differ due to gender-based differences in … studies modeling healthcare expenditures using household survey data used a gender dummy variable in regression models to … control for household gender headship at the household level. Due to the endogeneity and self-selection bias in the past …

This paper fills a gap in the literature of gender bias in household expenditure by analyzing how institutional norms … and culture show gender bias in various forms, there is no information about gender bias in household expenditure. Using …, the paper examines the presence of gender bias in Iran’s household expenditure. Findings show that women and girls suffer …

consuming less reveals that gender differences in infection risk aversion and precautionary saving motives are small. I find … considerable gender differences in the reporting of affordability constraints and consumer preference shifts. Women report …