This is a comparative study of children’s resource shares in male-headed and female-headed households. To this end we estimate a household collective model using a rotating panel of households from the Jamaican Survey of Living Conditions over a period of 21 years (1990–2010). We find that the gender of the household head is important in determining individual resource shares within the household. Our results also indicate that children receive substantially larger resource shares in female-headed households than in male-headed ones and hence children who live in relatively poor female-headed households are not necessarily worse off. Additionally, the effects of household characteristics on the shares of children are shown to vary considerably based on the gender of the household head.

这是对男性为首的家庭和女性为首的家庭中儿童资源份额的比较研究。为此，我们使用牙买加住户调查21年（1990-2010年）中的轮换住户面板来估计住户集体模型。我们发现，户主的性别对于确定家庭中个人的资源份额很重要。我们的研究结果还表明，与男户主家庭相比，女户主家庭获得的资源份额要大得多，因此，生活在相对贫困的女户主家庭中的孩子并不一定会变得更糟。此外，根据户主性别的不同，家庭特征对儿童比例的影响也显示出很大差异。