how a spouse's help increases a person's human capital. The approach is interdisciplinary, combining aspects of sociology …

participation in a polygamous household. Men and women are viewed as separate decision-makers who bargain with each other. More …

how a spouse's help increases a person's human capital. The approach is interdisciplinary, combining aspects of sociology …

Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the household as the unit of analysis, so … that the multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all its … members. This assumption ignores intra-household inequalities. Additionally, households containing both a female and a male …

Most existing multidimensional poverty measures use the household as the unit of analysis so that the multidimensional … poverty condition of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty condition of all its members. For this reason …, household-based poverty measures ignore the intra-household inequalities and are gender-insensitive. Gender equality, however …

-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …

. Nonmarket productivity levels and their effect on initial human capital endowment of households were also considered. …