The Author: Holger Seebens received a Master in Sociology from the University of Bonn before he pursued his Ph.D. studies in economics at the University of Göttingen, where he graduated in 2007. From 2005 until 2007, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn as Senior Researcher. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the University of Göttingen.

• Contents: One size fits all? Female headed households and access to resources in Kenya – Bargaining over Fertility in Rural Ethiopia – Patterns of consumption and child welfare in female headed households in Tanzania – Food demand, female headed households, and the estimation of equivalence scales.

The Author: Holger Seebens received a Master in Sociology from the University of Bonn before he pursued his Ph.D. studies in economics at the University of Göttingen, where he graduated in 2007. From 2005 until 2007, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn as Senior Researcher. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the University of Göttingen.

• Contents: One size fits all? Female headed households and access to resources in Kenya – Bargaining over Fertility in Rural Ethiopia – Patterns of consumption and child welfare in female headed households in Tanzania – Food demand, female headed households, and the estimation of equivalence scales.

The Author: Holger Seebens received a Master in Sociology from the University of Bonn before he pursued his Ph.D. studies in economics at the University of Göttingen, where he graduated in 2007. From 2005 until 2007, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn as Senior Researcher. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the University of Göttingen.

• Contents: One size fits all? Female headed households and access to resources in Kenya – Bargaining over Fertility in Rural Ethiopia – Patterns of consumption and child welfare in female headed households in Tanzania – Food demand, female headed households, and the estimation of equivalence scales.