Iranian female-headed households’ material well-being during sanctions and post-JCPOA periods

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12319632
AutoresIlyar Heydari Barardehi (0000-0001-6068-2531, Economic Research Institute, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran, autor de correspondencia), Mahnoush Abdollah Milani (0000-0002-1200-1436, Allameh Tabataba'i University)
Año2022
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas116-137
Fecha de publicación2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGender Technology and Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0971-8524 • E-ISSN: 0973-0656
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09718524.2022.2043987
OpenAlexW4214899554
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas32

In the recent decade, the number of female-headed households has been growing in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It has been shown that Iranian female heads struggle with numerous socio-economic challenges. Yet, various aspects of their economic well-being remain unknown. Over the same period, sanction-induced economic pressure inflicted a wide range of economic difficulties on Iranian households. This paper investigates how Iranian female-headed households’ material well-being has changed over the past decade compared with male-headed ones. In particular, we focus on two consecutive time frames: post-sanctions and post-nuclear deal periods. Using household-level data first, we create income and consumption-based measures of material well-being, and then we investigate changes in these measures relying on OLS and quantile regressions. We find that female-headed households’ material well-being has declined during the sanctions period. We also discover urban–rural, gender, and class disparities in terms of material well-being losses. Indeed, rural economically disadvantaged female-headed households seem to be more vulnerable to adverse sanctions-induced shocks than other households. Our analysis of the post-nuclear deal period reveals that the progressively declining trend in female-headed households’ material well-being appears to be stopped during this period

Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Period (music · Political science · Quantile regression · Sanctions · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Agricultural risk and resilience · Employment and Welfare Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality