In the past two decades, many researchers have used the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data to analyse women’s economic status, or economic gender inequality, across the industrialized countries. Researchers concerned with labour market outcomes have concluded that: (i) women’s labour market status lags men’s in nearly every LIS country and time period; (ii) motherhood is a consequential factor ...

This study uses Indian unit record data from expenditure and employment surveys, in conjunction with State level indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than others, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics, on child labour and child schoolin...

The food security assessment used by the United State's Food Security/Hunger Survey Module (US- FSSM) was used in five studies: these were in two urban and four rural areas in Indonesia between February 2004- August 2005. The number of households assessed was 3,704 and consisted of 45% urban and 55% rural. All households had children below five years. This paper aims to assess the applicability...

This study investigated the living conditions of eZakheleni informal settlement, Durban metropolis Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. The utilized data were collected with use a well-structured questionnaire through multistage sampling 255 households. descriptive results indicated low levels educational attainment, large number female headed households, high unemployment rates, inadequate sources inc...

Smallholder farmers in lower-income countries often lack access to agricultural inputs, services, and markets. This holds especially for female farmers, with important negative implications productivity, child welfare, rural development. Contract farming is promoted as a means improving farmers’ markets – thereby household income welfare. Could contract also reduce prevalent gender disparities?...

Climate change impact and risks on agricultural livelihood affect women men disproportionately often to the disadvantage of girls. Consequently, this study assessed gender perspectives vulnerability climate farming households at Ikpayongo community in Gwer local government area, Benue State, Nigeria using descriptive approach. The identified a total 120 male-headed female-headed across four nei...

The goal of this paper is twofold as it aims (i) to investigate whether female headed households (FHH) can be distinguished by patterns of production and (ii) to look for the underlying causes of productivity differentials between FHH categories. Studies dealing with the question of productivity in FHH and male headed households (MHH) find that FHH are either less, equally, or more productive t...

Transitory and permanent shocks to income have been shown to be important determinants of household consumption. This paper shows that there are signifi cant diff erences in the development of transitory and permanent inequality of household income between demographic groups since the 1980s. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics the educational attainment and the composition of a h...

Background and aim Social capital and social support as determinants of health play an important role in the health of female heads of households. Considering the increasing number of female-headed families in Iran and the world, this study was conducted to systematically review the impact of social capital and social support on the health of female heads of households. Methods This study was...