The Poverty and Heterogeneity Among Female-Headed Households Revisited: The Case of Panama

By N. Fuwa. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners vs Household Heads (2012, background): “There is now a general consensus that female-headed households are a heterogeneous category, reflecting both the context and the myriad of ways in which they are formed (Fuwa 2000; BRIDGE 2001; Finley 2007).”
Are Female-Headed Households More Food Insecure? Evidence from Bangladesh (2010, background): “It has been observed that the indigenous ethnic groups have historically been concentrated in certain geographical regions which are usually characterized by low productivity and high incidence of poverty 593 (Fuwa, 2000).”
Is There a Feminization of Poverty in Latin America (2008, background): “Fuwa (2000) , Marcoux (1998) and Quisumbing, Haddad, and Pena (1995) found weak evidence, if any, of a higher incidence of poverty among female headed households in Sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, and Rwanda), Asia (Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Nepal), and 13 ”
Poverty–Food Security Nexus: Evidence from a Survey of Urban Slum Dwellers in Kolkata (2014, background): “…in the labor market; (ii) she is also responsible for maintaining the household including household chores and child care in addition to working outside, and thus she is “activity burdened”, and (iii) she might face a higher dependency ratio for being the single income earner (Fuwa, 2000).”
Women, Weather, and Woes: The Triangular Dynamics of Female-Headed Households, Economic Vulnerability, and Climate Variability in South Africa (2017, background): “…jure female-headed households (i.e., households headed by never-married, divorced, widowed or separated women) and de facto female-headed households (i.e., households in which the male partner is absent, but may still influence household decision-making) (Fafchamps & Quisumbing, 2007; Fuwa, 2000).”
Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction policies. (2005, unknown): “First, it helps to illuminate the role that gender plays in shaping the capabilities, entitlements and subsequent opportunities of households (Fuwa 2000).”
Understanding the Complexities Surrounding Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria and Uganda (2011, background): “…headship is the most routinely collected gender indicator, the very concept of household head may be less concrete and more fluid than many researchers conceptualise, encompassing typologies ranging from de jure and de facto to skipped generation female headed households (Fuwa, 2000; Finely, 2007).”
What determines gender inequality in household food security in Kenya? Application of exogenous switching treatment regression (2014, methodology): “Although alternative definitions of head of household have recently emerged, including Hours-worked-based head, Earningsbased head, and Resource control-based head (Fuwa, 2000), we used the self-reported definition of head of household.”