Are Households with Female Heads Really Poorer?
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Keywords
gender; feminization of poverty theory; wealth index;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B54 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Feminist Economics
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2024-01-22 (Development)
- NEP-HME-2024-01-22 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LAB-2024-01-22 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2024-01-22 (South East Asia)
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