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Do Endowments Matter? Exploring The Gender Dimensions Of Poverty In Egypt

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  • Shireen Alazzawi

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This paper investigates the gender dimensions of poverty in Egypt and examines the factors that contribute to poverty for different household types. Furthermore, it decomposes the poverty differential between household types into a component due to endowments and another due to the return to these endowments. I use data from five Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Surveys, that span a period of far reaching economic, social and political changes, from 1999 to 2013. Results suggest that female‐headed households were poorer than male‐headed households for all years under study in urban areas; and slightly less poor over part of the period in rural areas. This difference is greater for widowed mothers. Most of the poverty differentials between female‐headed and male‐headed households cannot be explained by differences in endowments in all years. In fact, if female‐headed households had the same endowments as male‐headed households in urban areas they would have been poorer than they already were.

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  • Shireen Alazzawi, 2018. "Do Endowments Matter? Exploring The Gender Dimensions Of Poverty In Egypt," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 64(s1), pages 189-224, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revinw:v:64:y:2018:i:s1:p:s189-s224
    DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12390
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