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Do gender wage differences within households influence women’s empowerment and welfare?: Evidence from GhanaUsing household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women’s empowerment and welfare in Ghana...
Gender wage gap Households Women's empowermentWorking Paper
The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa: A gender comparisonThis study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the South African 2010 Time Use Survey...
leisure household composition Gender inequalityWorking Paper
Socioeconomic and cultural drivers of women’s formal work in rural GhanaWe study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment in a subsistence agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour...
Female labour force participation Ghana Decision makingWorking Paper
Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling: New evidence from sub-Saharan AfricaSub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys and girls...
Educational expenditures Gender bias Human capitalJournal Article
Commodity Prices and Intra-Household Labor AllocationVolatility in commodity markets poses a distinct risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture...
Households Income Labour supplyBook Chapter
Intra-household bargaining in poor countriesFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Households Efficiency DevelopmentWorking Paper
Intra-household bargaining in poor countriesThis paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among spouses...
Households Efficiency DevelopmentAbout
Presentation - AL9The title of the lecture is ‘The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy’. The reference to ‘flatness’ alludes to the more level playing field due to globalization that has enabled China, India, and...
Inequality Justice GlobalizationWorking Paper
The power to choose: Gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in IndiaWe assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in India...
Collective bargaining Education Feminist economicsWorking Paper
Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply: Evidence from VietnamVolatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture...
Households Income Labour supplyVideo
Special Session on South Africa 2Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.2
Health Poverty Economic surveysVideo
The Poorest and Most ExcludedConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 1.3
Poverty Children HouseholdsVideo
Social ProtectionConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 6.2
Households Natural disasters CreditVideo
Sustainable EnergyConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 3.2
Climate change Households Energy infrastructureWorking Paper
Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision: Evidence from sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys’ and girls’ dropouts...
Education Families HouseholdsWorking Paper
Income and price elasticities of demand in South Africa: An application of the linear expenditure systemThis paper investigates the expenditure patterns of South African households using detailed cross-sectional expenditure and price data...
Aeronautics Consumption Food supply