Poverty in female-headed households. Comparison between North Region of Argentina and Total Country
Keywords:
Poverty; Female poverty; Argentina.Abstract
Poverty in female-headed households has been the subject of several studies in various countries of the world, but not in Argentina. In this paper we address this issue and explore the situation in the Norte Grande in Argentina (NGA). This region has the highest poverty levels in the country, considering both the monetary and non-monetary dimensions (González, 2019), and comparatively high levels also of people living in single-parent and large households, in which the risks of poverty are greater than in other households. The questions we are trying to answer are two: a) if there is evidence of feminization of poverty in the country, and b) if the NGA registers a level of feminization of poverty higher than the national average, after controlling factors that determine poverty of homes. We find that Argentina experiences the phenomenon of feminization of poverty, that the feminization of poverty has increased in the last seven years (since 2013) and that the NGA region does not present levels of feminization of poverty greater than the rest of the country once controlled the determinants of poverty.References
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