Background: Although most studies on female-headed families focus on women's access to social support, the associations between social capital and quality of life in these families are unclear in many societies (such as Iran). This study aimed to determine the associations between social capital and quality of life in Iranian female headed families.   Methods : This cross-sectional study was ...

Abstract In this article, we examine the joint influence of land access and gender household head on food insecurity by employing a logit model using data from 2015/2016 Nigerian General Household Survey. Our results show that female-headed households (FHHs) are more insecure than male-headed households. However, with 1-acre increase in their to land, FHHs 16 percent less likely be insecure. Th...

Abstract There has been a rapid expansion in the use of payments for environmental services (PES) as key conservation finance policy. However, there is insufficient understanding how gender can affect PES implementation and outcomes. We present results from case study Viet Nam, where national programme place decade. Through panel household survey data, focus groups interviews, we examined women...

BACKGROUND In the absence of functional social security mechanisms for elderly people in Nigeria, elderly households are solely responsible for geriatric healthcare costs, which can lead to catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) - particularly among the poor. This study investigates the key determinants of CHE among poorly insured elderly households in Nigeria. We also offer some policy options...

The percent of households headed by married couples has recently fallen below 50%, while the percent of unmarried couples (both heterosexual and homosexual) continues to rise. Nationally-representative estimates of unmarried couples which first appeared in the 1990 and 2000 decennial Censuses are now available on an annual basis through the American Community Survey. In this paper we use state-...

This paper estimates a housing demand function from a four year panel study. The findings indicate that the income elasticity of housing demand is around .6 or .7 for owners and around .5 for renters. This means that the percentage of income spent on housing declines as income rises, and that the property tax falls more heavily on the poor than on the rich. This finding differs from earlier stu...

INTRODUCTION The paradoxical phenomenon of the coexistence of overweight and underweight individuals in the same household, referred to as the "dual burden of malnutrition", is a growing nutrition dilemma in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). AIMS The objectives of this study were (i) to examine the extent of the dual burden of malnutrition across different provinces in Indonesia and (...

This paper sets out to answer two questions. First, are poor females at a significant disadvantage compared to males and non-poor females in terms of welfare indicators of such as health, education, nutrition, labor force participation, and time use? Second, are female-headed households over-represented among the poor? To answer these questions and maintain consistency in the definition of pove...