Klasen, StephanEspinoza-Delgado, José2025-01-172025-01-172018-06-18José Espinoza-Delgado, Stephan Klasen, Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua: An individual based approach, World Development, Volume 110, 2018, Pages 466-491,0305-750Xhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.016https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25360The registered version of this article, first published in World Developmen, is available online at the publisher's website: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.016La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en World Developmen, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.016Most existing multidimensional poverty measures, such as the global-MPI and the MPI-LA, use the household as the unit of analysis, which means that the multidimensional poverty condition of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty condition of all its members; accordingly, these measures ignore the intra-household inequalities and are gender-insensitive. Gender equality is, however, at the center of the sustainable development, as emphasized by Goal 5 of the SDGs; therefore, individual-based measures are indispensable to track progress in reaching this Goal. We contribute to the literature on multidimensional poverty and gender inequality by proposing an individual-based multidimensional poverty measure for Nicaragua and estimate the gender gaps in the three I’s of multidimensional poverty (incidence, intensity, and inequality). Overall, we find that in Nicaragua, the gender gaps in multidimensional poverty are lower than 5%, and poverty does not seem to be feminized. However, the inequality among the multidimensionally poor is clearly feminized, especially among adults, and women are living in very intense poverty when compared to men. We also find that adding a dimension (employment, domestic work, and social protection) under which women face higher deprivation into the analysis leads to larger estimates of the incidence, intensity, and inequality of women’s poverty. Finally, we find evidence that supports earlier studies that challenge the notion that female-headed households are worse off than those led by males in terms of poverty.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess53 Ciencias Económicas59 Ciencia Política::5909 Administración pública::5909.01 Gestión administrativaartículomultidimensional povertyintra-household inequalitygender gaps in povertyLatin AmericaNicaragua