The economic well-being of female-headed households is a growing public concern. While marital disruption undoubtedly precipitates major changes in household relationships and income sources, we show that its role in increasing poverty, especially in the short term, is seriously overstated by traditional data-collection methods. Using longitudinal data which allow us to follow women as wives an...

We use shifts in food Engel curves among the U.S. elderly to estimate the extent of Consumer Price Index (CPI) bias specific to this population. Over the last thirty years the share of total expenditure devoted to food has declined more rapidly for elderly-headed households than for other households. This decline is not explained by a more rapid increase in measured total expenditure for the el...

introduction: according to psychological research female-headed households have a lot of physical and mental problems because they experience more stress and anxiety than other women in general population. aims of this study determine of quality of life and associated factors in female-headed households under cover welfare organization of ilam province.materials & methods: in this descripti...

The absence of updated information on the current status cattle feed bases and production practice is one important determinant that has been affecting in Jinka town South Omo. This study was aimed to investigate basis, availability, constraints opportunities Alga Kebele. A face-to-face household survey conducted by interviewing 31 purposively selected keeper households from Kebele base experie...

I was appalled, if not surprised, to see the publication of Donald Sullins' study, " Invisible Victims: Delayed Onset Depression among Adults with Same-Sex Parents " in Depression Research and Treatment (2016) [1]. Sullins claims that having same-sex parents increases the likelihood of suffering from depression, abuse, parental distance, and obesity and concludes that households with gay or les...

Basic services have improved in many urban areas of South Africa, which should improve health and well-being. However, poverty and ill-health persist and are unequally distributed by race, class and place. This paper explores conditions of the most marginalized group, female-headed households, in a case study of Msunduzi Municipality (formerly Pietermaritzburg). Data from two household surveys ...

Based on data generated from 180 randomly selected households with children age under five years old in Aysaita district of Afar region of Ethiopia, this study explored prevalence of malnutrition and scrutinized household characteristics, maternal characteristics, specifics of the child and economic variables associated with child malnutrition. The height-for-age Z-scores (HAZ), weight-for-heig...

Grosu & Hoshi (2019:20), in their rejoinder to Kitagawa (2019), propose that apparent violations of island constraints the so-called internally-headed relative clauses are accounted for by considering them as reduced doubly-headed clauses. This paper shows this claim and is not empirically sustainable, further it misses discourse function A discussion gapless light-headed externally-hea...

Promoting commercialization of agricultural production is a cornerstone the rural development strategies Ethiopia and smallholder farming not yet adequate enough to enable farmers be profitable. This study was designed analyze farmers’ teff in Guduru District, Western Ethiopia. Two-stages sampling procedure followed select 154 producer from four randomly selected kebeles. An interview schedule ...