We obtain a model-driven measure of gender norms on intra-household financial decision making by leveraging dramatic variation across Italian cohorts and regions in the household head. use these estimates to identify effects parity decisions. More egalitarian increase participation markets, equity holdings, asset diversification, returns investments. This evidence suggests that roles can have l...

The use of public shelters in Philadelphia was examined both before and after the implementation of Act 35, Pennsylvania’s response to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Univariate interrupted time-series analyses were conducted to determine if trends in shelter utilization (the number of families admitted, by family size, by race, by age of household h...

This study was to analyze some demographic variables influencing the participation of rural women in the informal sector of Imo State, Nigeria. Descriptive analysis was applied on the data collected from a survey conducted in nine Local Government Areas of Imo State. Two thousand, three hundred and forty women were selected using multistage sampling. The selection of nine LG As constituted the ...

Objective: to analyze food insecurity prevalence and associated factors with socioeconomic and demographic factors among families assisted by the Family Health Strategy in Teresina-PI, Brazil. Methods: this was a cross-sectional study conducted in 2012-2013, with 323 families, whose heads answered the questionnaires. Results: the prevalence of low food insecurity was 35.6% low, 16.1% moderate a...

This study assessed the determinants of intensity of improved rice varieties adoption using the Tobit model and also employed. The Heckman Two-stage model was used to identify the determinants of market participation and its potential impact on farming households’ welfare in three states selected from the three notable rice producing ecologies in Nigeria. A crosssectional data of 600 rice farme...

Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, we use both household and macro data to establish how fast per capita consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level of human capital and how much reflected underlying technical progress. Third, we assess the implications of how incomes rose for the interpretation o...

The American Indian population, made up of well over 300 tribes, now numbers more than 1.5 million or over 0.6 percent of the U.S. population. Throughout the recent past, it has been a rapidly growing population that has consistently had a birth rate twice that of the rest of the U.S. population (IHS 1988; May 1988; Broudy and May 1983). Because of this high fertility, the median age of the Ind...

Pakistan is facing severe level of food insecurity in terms physical and economic access. In this regard, current study will focus to empirically investigate the leading determinants by using HIES 2019 data set. Household Expenditures Survey (HES) method be used find status Pakistan. method, information about quantities expenditure incidence at household level. Further, logistic regression mode...

The aims of this study are to measure the technical efficiency (TE) of Cambodian household’s rice production and trying to determine its main influencing factors using the stochastic frontier production function. The study utilized primary data collected from 301 rice farmers in three selected districts of Battambang by structured questionnaires. The empirical results indicated the level of hou...

A large proportion of two parent households transition into single parent households upon marital disruption. Single parent households, especially female headed households face an increase in the risk of poverty. This study focuses on whether widow status in India influences the likelihood of household headship in India. This study is based on the most recent National Family Health Survey 1998-...