This paper examines the factors that influence rural household decisions to clear forestland. We use a large dataset com prising 7172 households from 24 developing countries. Twenty seven percent of sampled households had converted forest to agriculture during the previous 12 months, clearing on average 1.21 ha. Male headed households with abundance of male labor, living in recently settled pla...

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...

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...

BACKGROUND HIV and negative coping mechanisms have a cyclical relationship. HIV infections may lead to the adoption of coping strategies, which may have undesired, negative consequences. We present data on the various coping mechanisms that HIV-affected households in Ghana resort to. METHODS We collected data on coping strategies, livelihood activities, food consumption, and asset wealth from...

I use the experience of China’s One Child Policy to examine how fertility restrictions affect economic and social outcomes over the lifetime. The One Child Policy imposed a birth quota and heavy penalties for “out-of-plan” births. Using variation in the fertility penalties across provinces over time, I examine how fertility restrictions imposed early in the lives of individuals affected their e...

Using the 2003 Tajikistan Living Standard Survey this paper looks at the relationship between gender and poverty and show how, by modifying the equal sharing assumption of the household resources, we can easily be misled by the poverty and gender relationship. This paper also shows how those gender analyses which use the female headed household and male headed household dichotomy in Tajikistan ...

The study assessed dynamics of food insecurity among households in rural Nigeria using the Living Standard Measurement Survey-Integrated Survey on Agriculture (LSMSISA) collected 2010/2011 and 2015/2016. Food status was constructed Household Insecurity Access Scale analysed with descriptive statistics random effect ordered probit model. Overall, 63.10%, 26.24%, 9.53% 1.13% were secure, mildly i...

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...