The paper examines the linkages between gender of household heads, education and household poverty in Nigeria between 1980 and 1996. Data analyzed were obtained from four national consumer expenditure surveys conducted in Nigeria in 1980, 1985, 1992 and 1996 by the Federal Office of Statistics. Adjustments were made for price differentials over time and across regions of the country. However, o...

background: women-headed households are more exposed to social damages than other women. such condition remarkably influences the women's health-related life quality. the present study is aimed to investigate the effect of an educational intervention in quality of life of women-headed households under protection of tehran welfare organization, in 2015.   methods: in this quasi-experimental stud...

background: women-headed households are more exposed to social damages than other women. such condition remarkably influences the women’s health-related life quality. the present study is aimed to investigate the effect of an educational intervention in quality of life of women-headed households under protection of tehran welfare organization, in 2015.   methods: in this quasi-experimental stud...

This study focused on the income generating capacity of farm family’s own resources and examined the vulnerability to financial risk among the remote and peri-urban farming systems of Imo state. Primary data was collected using the farming and rural systems approach to randomly select and interview 120 households. Descriptive statistics and Mann whitney test were used in assessing between group...

How do tariffs impact gender inequality? Using harmonized household survey and tariff data from 54 low- middle-income countries, this paper shows that protectionism has an anti-female bias. On average, repress the real incomes of female headed households by 0.6 percentage points relative to male ones. Female bear brunt because they derive a smaller share their income spend larger budget on agri...

Good nutrition is a prerequisite for a healthy and active life, especially for agriculture-dependent households. However, diets in most households in Tanzania lack diversity because the intake of meat, poultry, fish, and vegetables and fruits is low. This study estimates factors influencing dietary diversity of the household, children under five years, and women using primary survey data. It qu...

This paper analyzes the effects of income shocks on households’ chances becoming headed by women and its female-headed poverty vulnerability in Brazilian metropolitan regions. For that, unemployment rate was used as an shock, considering both positive negative variations general economy sectors that mostly employ men women. The results suggest decrease female household headship, while ones cann...