This paper is based on a study carried out in Rakai District, Uganda. The assumption of the study is that orphans living on their own face much greater material and psychosocial challenges and stigma than other orphans and other vulnerable children, and thus the main objectives were to initiate, and evaluate, interventions that could improve the situation for the children in child-headed househ...

We adopt a direct approach to measuring the welfare levels of households with different incomes and varying characteristics by using households' responses to subjective questions about their evaluations of their own economic status. We use this approach to analyze newly available u.S. data on subjective well-being. We address such interrelated questions as how to rank households by welfare leve...

A cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the impact of perceived quality and cost of utilisation of primary health care services, in relation to malaria, in rural and urban districts in Tanzania. This study intended to explore whether there are differences between rural and urban users in terms of their perceptions of quality of health services and how these perceptions affect househol...

— This paper uses household and village-level survey data to investigate the food security of maleand female-headed households in Bangladesh with particular attention to indigenous ethnic groups, and finds no significant differences in the food security between these two types of households. The absence of social and cultural restrictions among the indigenous groups permitting their females gre...

BACKGROUND & AIM Women heading their households are the ones who lead their life alone. Burden of life probably decreases the quality of life of women-headed households. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between quality of life of women-headed households and some related factors in Iran. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional study and 180 women-head households were sele...

The gender of the household head has often been treated as an exogenous determinant of housing tenure. We argue that several determinants of homeownership also affect household headship and that failing to explicitly account for this endogeneity leads to inconsistent results. Using individual level data for Chile, Honduras and Nicaragua we show that although on average women have lower probabil...