Gendered Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Poor Urban Households in India

Submitted by Tanay Ray Bhatt on
EfD Authors:
Bandyopadhyay, Sutirtha

This paper is an analysis of the subjective well-being of women relative to men in low-income urban households in India. Education and employment are pathways to greater financial well-being which is presumably of great salience to poor populations. However, either or both of these may increase aspirations. The social norms that restrict the autonomy of women may mute the impact of education and employment in a way that does not happen to men. To address this hypothesis, the paper uses primary data from a survey of over 1000 respondents across slums in Delhi.

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Gender

Gender-Specific Livelihood Strategies for Coping with Climate Change-Induced Food Insecurity in Southeast Nigeria

Submitted by Nnaemeka Chukwuone on
EfD Authors:
AGWU, EKWE AGWU
Anugwa, Ifeoma Quinette

This study assessed the livelihood strategies adopted by husbands and wives within the same households for coping with climate-induced food insecurity in Southeast Nigeria. Collective and bargaining approaches were used in collecting individual and intra-household-level data of 120 pairs of spouses in Southeast Nigeria; husbands and wives were interviewed separately. Focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and household surveys were used to elicit responses from the respondents.

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Agriculture, Climate Change, Gender

Social Protection and Vulnerability to Nutrition Security among Male and Female Headed Households in Ethiopia 20-05

Submitted by Eugenia Leon on
EfD Authors:
Teklewold, Hailemariam
Gebreheiwot, Tagel
Bezabih, Mintewab Ayele

This study examines the role of Ethiopia’s productive safety net program (PSNP) and its modes of benefit transfer in vulnerability to nutritional outcomes among female- and male-headed households

EfD Discussion Paper
Gender, Health

Rainfall Shocks and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Indian Agriculture

Submitted by Tanay Ray Bhatt on
EfD Authors:
Mahajan , Kanika

In the context of climate change and its effect on poverty, previous studies have shown that productivity shocks in agriculture, such as rainfall variability, affect wages adversely. None of the studies, however, consider the heterogeneity in the impact of these shocks on agricultural wages by gender, a feature which has been studied for demand shocks in urban labor markets for developed countries. Using National Sample Survey data for India from 1993 to 2007, a district-level panel dataset is created to examine how a rainfall shock affects the gender wage gap.

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Gender

A gender perspective on the impact of flood on the food security of households in rural communities of Anambra state, Nigeria

Submitted by Nnaemeka Chukwuone on
EfD Authors:
Ajaero , Chukwuedozie

This research examined gender perspectives of the implications of the severe 2012 flood on household food security in rural Anambra state, Nigeria. Two hundred and forty flood-affected migrant households, made up of 120 maleheaded households (MHHs) and 120 female-headed households (FHHs) in four rural local government areas (LGAs) were interviewed using a questionnaire. In addition, 12 focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted in the LGAs. Data analysis was by descriptive statistics, use of a food security index, and binary logistic regression.

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Gender
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