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In Sickness and in Health: Risk-Sharing Within Households in Rural Ethiopia/

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: (Working Paper Series) WPS/97-12Publication details: University of Oxford: Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), [1997].Description: 53 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.456'1 DER
Summary: Households in rural Ethiopia, like farm households elsewhere in developing countries, live in a highly risky and volatile environment and suffer tremendous variation in incomes, mainly due to factors beyond their control. While the paper investigates whether households act as risk-sharing institutions so that nutritional levels are smooth across members of the households, it also looks at the factors determining the intra-household allocation of nutrition. The paper further examines whether, in the face of fluctuating incomes, the burden of adjustment is borne by women, particularly in poorer households. Panel data from Ethiopia is used to ask whether women in poor households are likely to experience more fluctuations in their nutritional status and consumption than men.
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Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN HQ Library General Stacks Non-fiction 700.456'1 DER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available 31008100139332

Includes bibliographical references: p. [37]-44.

Households in rural Ethiopia, like farm households elsewhere in developing countries, live in a highly risky and volatile environment and suffer tremendous variation in incomes, mainly due to factors beyond their control. While the paper investigates whether households act as risk-sharing institutions so that nutritional levels are smooth across members of the households, it also looks at the factors determining the intra-household allocation of nutrition. The paper further examines whether, in the face of fluctuating incomes, the burden of adjustment is borne by women, particularly in poorer households. Panel data from Ethiopia is used to ask whether women in poor households are likely to experience more fluctuations in their nutritional status and consumption than men.

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