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 … areas. The results show that there has not been any feminization of poverty since 1995. In 1999, the incidence of poverty …

with a set of practical tools to analyse intra-household differentiation. We feel that this is necessary if researchers are … difference affect intra-household decision-making and resource allocation. To date, development research has tended to focus on …, physical and mental disability, illness, and relationship to household head. Until now most research into these areas has …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data …

, and inequality and poverty in New Zealand using detailed data from the 1983/84-2003/04 Household Economic Survey (HES). We …This paper investigates the relationship between individual labour market outcomes, household income and expenditure … relationship between individual labour market outcomes, and household income and expenditure for households with different …

This paper compares two indicators of household vulnerability using the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and … Wealth (2008-2014). According to the first indicator, a household is considered vulnerable if its debt service …-to-income ratio exceeds 30 per cent and its income is below the median of the population. According to the second, a household is …

This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty … unconditional positive incidence on energy poverty while the interactive incidence between entrepreneurship and financial inclusion … on energy poverty is negative. The corresponding financial inclusion policy thresholds that should be exceeded in order …

overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …