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Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh

This paper analyzes the impact of women's empowerment on two aspects of food security-calorie and protein intake of children-using data on agricultural households from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey. We are interested both in the differential impact of mother's empowerment on t...

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Main Authors: Hossain, Mahbub, Asadullah, M. Niaz, Kambhampati, Uma
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Published: 2021
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HA Statistics
HC Economic History and Conditions
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/26183/
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09546-x
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spelling my.um.eprints.261832022-02-17T02:28:51Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/26183/ Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh Hossain, Mahbub Asadullah, M. Niaz Kambhampati, Uma HA Statistics HC Economic History and Conditions This paper analyzes the impact of women's empowerment on two aspects of food security-calorie and protein intake of children-using data on agricultural households from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey. We are interested both in the differential impact of mother's empowerment on the food security of boys and girls as well as in whether different aspects of empowerment have different effects. There are 10 different aspects of empowerment including making production decisions, owning and selling assets, being a member of a group and so on. Our estimates suggest that, in households with more empowered women, children enjoy higher calorie and protein intake but that daughters are disadvantaged relative to sons. Most importantly, mother's empowerment is an important source of gender discrimination. When considering the sub-components of empowerment, we find that input into production decisions are important for both calorie consumption and protein. These findings are robust to a host of controls including household poverty, sibling composition, community social norms and individual characteristics. 2021 Article PeerReviewed Hossain, Mahbub and Asadullah, M. Niaz and Kambhampati, Uma (2021) Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh. Review of Economics of the Household, 19 (3). pp. 739-767. ISSN 1569-5239, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09546-x <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09546-x>. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09546-x doi:10.1007/s11150-021-09546-x
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topic HA Statistics
HC Economic History and Conditions
spellingShingle HA Statistics
HC Economic History and Conditions
Hossain, Mahbub
Asadullah, M. Niaz
Kambhampati, Uma
Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh
description This paper analyzes the impact of women's empowerment on two aspects of food security-calorie and protein intake of children-using data on agricultural households from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey. We are interested both in the differential impact of mother's empowerment on the food security of boys and girls as well as in whether different aspects of empowerment have different effects. There are 10 different aspects of empowerment including making production decisions, owning and selling assets, being a member of a group and so on. Our estimates suggest that, in households with more empowered women, children enjoy higher calorie and protein intake but that daughters are disadvantaged relative to sons. Most importantly, mother's empowerment is an important source of gender discrimination. When considering the sub-components of empowerment, we find that input into production decisions are important for both calorie consumption and protein. These findings are robust to a host of controls including household poverty, sibling composition, community social norms and individual characteristics.
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author Hossain, Mahbub
Asadullah, M. Niaz
Kambhampati, Uma
author_facet Hossain, Mahbub
Asadullah, M. Niaz
Kambhampati, Uma
author_sort Hossain, Mahbub
title Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh
title_short Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh
title_full Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh
title_fullStr Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in Bangladesh
title_sort women’s empowerment and gender-differentiated food allocation in bangladesh
publishDate 2021
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/26183/
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09546-x
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