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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
卷 56, 期 -, 页码 153-171出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.025
关键词
gender; food security; inequality; exogenous switching treatment regression; Africa; Kenya
This paper explores the link between the gender of a household head and food security in rural Kenya. The results show that the food security gap between male-headed households (MHHs) and female-headed households (FHHs) is explained by their differences in observable and unobservable characteristics. FHHs' food security status would have been higher than it is now if the returns (coefficients) on their observed characteristics had been the same as the returns on the MHHs' characteristics. Even if that had been the case, however, results indicate that FHHs would still have been less food-secure than the MHHs due to unobservable characteristics. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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