Woman-headed households and poverty: an empirical deconstruction for Kenya

Simon Appleton

No 1995-14, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: Analysis of the first nationally representative household survey of Uganda shows that woman-headed households as a group are not poor when assessed by consumption or income. They are disadvantaged on several social indicators, with lower school enrolment by girls, higher mortality and lower usage of curative health care. Some sub-groups are also economically disadvantaged, including those headed by widows. Lack of female education is the major source of the economic disadvantage women-headed households face. High remittances receipts play a key role in maintaining economic parirt between woman and man-headed households.

Date: 1995
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Published in World Development, 24(12), December 1996, pp1811-1827

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