Arbeitspapier

Women Empowerment and Intra-household Dietary Diversity in Nigeria

This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank’s General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO groupings of food intake within the household. Accounting for potential endogeneity of empowerment, as well as using both the non-parametric regression and the traditional least square regression, we find that increases in empowerment are positively associated with household dietary diversity. Overall, household that are female biased in terms of share of female within the household, and those that favour female leadership tend to have higher significant improvement in their dietary intake with empowerment. On the contrary, empowerment generates a small proportion of male dietary diversity.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: AGDI Working Paper ; No. WP/16/050

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Sustainable Development
Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
Land Use Patterns
Thema
Agriculture
Food Diversity
Food Security
Gender
Household
Nigeria
Rural Development

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Tanankem, Belmondo V.
Efobi, Uchenna R.
Atata, Ngozi S.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)
(wo)
Yaoundé
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Tanankem, Belmondo V.
  • Efobi, Uchenna R.
  • Atata, Ngozi S.
  • African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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