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Productivity, Health and Inequality in the Intrahousehold Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries

Year: 1989

Type: preprint

Abstract: A model is formulated incorporating linkages among nutrition, labor-market productivity, health heterogeneity, and the intrahousehold distribution of food and work activities in a subsistence economy. Empirical results, based on a sample of households from Bangladesh, indicate that, despite considerable intrahousehold disparities in calorie consumption, households are averse to inequality. Furthermore, consistent with the model, the results also indicate that both the higher level and greater variance in the calories consumed by men relative to women reflect in part the greater participation by men in activities in which productivity is sensitive to health status. Copyright 1990 by American Economic Association.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.7480

Authors: Pitt, Mark M., Rosenzweig, Mark R., Hassan, Md. Nazmul

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Reduced inequalities, No poverty, Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1545937856

Cites: 14

Cited by: 505

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