Poverty and productivity in female-headed households in Zimbabwe

By S. Horrell, P. Krishnan. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Urban Studies

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy (2013, background): “Horrell and Krishnan (2007) report that female-headed households often lack assets or incomes, and that this constrains their ability to diversify their economic activities.”
Constraints faced by women entrepreneurs in developing countries: review and ranking (2018, background): “Women rely on their own limited assets and income, which constrains their ability to grow and diversify their economic activities (Horrell and Krishnan, 2007).”
Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Uganda (2015, background): “…is, given declining marginal returns to the input in question, redistribution of the input from male to female-headed households with the same characteristics but lower endowment of the resource in question would increase overall agricultural yield in the sector (e.g. Horrell and Krishnan 2007).”
Gender and Agriculture : Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps (2013, unknown): “In Zimbabwe, Horrell and Krishnan (2007) find lower yields for households of widows or de jure female-headed households.”
Women Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries: What explains the gender gap in entrepreneurship and how to close it? (2013, background): “As discussed, though, women are often assigned a special role as drivers of development due to their expenditure patterns (Minniti and Naudé, 2010 and Horrell and Krishnan, 2007).”
Understanding the Complexities Surrounding Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria and Uganda (2011, background): “Likewise, Horrell and Krishnan ( 2007 ) find that once inputs are controlled for, female-headed households in Zimbabwe are equally as productive as male-headed households, with the exception of cotton growers.”
A review of empirical evidence on gender differences in nonland agricultural inputs, technology, and services in developing countries (2014, background): “In the Zimbabwe study of agricultural differences in productivity, Horrell and Krishnan (2007) included an index of farm machinery as a control indicator and found significant bivariate differences between male and de facto female heads of household but not between male and de jure female heads of h”
Nutrition, Religion, and Widowhood in Nigeria (2018, unknown): “In Uganda, Zimbabwe and Mali, studies investigating the well-being of female-headed households find that among them, widow-headed households are particularly disadvantaged (Appleton 1996; Horrell and Krishnan 2007; and van de Walle 2013, respectively).”
Factors influencing household food security among smallholder farmers in the Mudzi district of Zimbabwe (2014, background): “Horrell & Krishnan (2007) argue that male-headed households are better positioned to source on-farm labour than their female-headed counterparts.”
Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “While some studies have assessed gender differences in agricultural work (see e.g. Jamison and Lau, 1982, Udry, 1996, Horrell and Krishnan, 2007, Goldstein and Udry, 2008) and entrepreneurship in urban areas, gender-differences in off-farm entrepreneurship in rural areas have not received much…”
Poverty in a Rising Africa (2016, background): “Widow-headed households are significantly poorer than other households in Madagascar, Mali, Uganda, and Zimbabwe (Appleton 1996; Horrell and Krishnan 2007; van de Walle 2013; World Bank 2014a).”
Urban agriculture and poverty reduction: Evaluating how food production in cities contributes to food security, employment and income in Malawi (2011, unknown): “This research did not identify more complex household arrangements (Adams, 1991; Horrell and Krishnan, 2007), such as women who are single only for a short while.”
Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “In Zimbabwe, female-headed households reported 50-75 percent lower total household income and up to 60 percent lower per capita incomes (Horrell and Krishnan, 2007).”