Mothers, Fathers and Children after Divorce: The Role of Institutions In recent years the increase in the divorce rate in many advanced countries and the predominance of female-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between divorce and the welfare of mothers and children. In this paper I will review a small body of economic literature which has been recen...

Wealth has been given attention as one of the factors leading to increased economic inequality [1,2]. Net worth affects lives low-income families because they have had disadvantages in accessing activities and less opportunity accumulate their own assets. The lack asset accumulation thus restricts mobility across individuals [3]. For instance, study it was found that female-headed households lo...

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...

BACKGROUND Consuming unsafe water results in infections that lead to illness or death from water borne diseases. Though there is an increasing effort from Ethiopian government to access safe water still there are households with limited access of safe water as a result, they depend on rain, well and spring water source for domestic use. However, the water treatment practice with the available t...

objectives: the main objective of the paper is finding solution to make selfhelp group's performance better in behzisti organization. recently empowerment theory is replaced the social policy theories. empowerment has five dimensions: income, accessibility, consciousness, control and participation. all of the dimensions are important and ought to be actualized. but based on the idea of the...

BACKGROUND There has been ample discussion on the levels and trends of infant mortality in India over time, but what remains less explored are, the differentials in infant mortality according to household headship. This paper examined the differences in the determinants of infant mortality between male-headed households (MHH) and female-headed households (FHH). METHODS The study used Cox prop...

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...

INTRODUCTION The Tanzania government, working in partnership with other stakeholders implemented a community-based project aimed at increasing access to clean and safe water basic sanitation and promotion of personal hygiene in Mtwara Rural District. Mid-term evaluation revealed that progress had been made towards improved ventilated latrines; however, there was no adequate information on utili...

Using 4 samples of adolescents from 3 nations (Australia, Sweden, and the United States), the authors explored whether the gendered nature of the family socialization environment affected young people's level of group-based social egalitarianism. It was hypothesized that the greater the father's influence in the family, the greater the children's level of group-based social anti-egalitarianism....

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 ...