Arbeitspapier
Household access to microcredit and children's food security in rural Malawi: a gender perspective
Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is assessed in a novel way as self-reported credit limits at microcredit organizations. Since credit limits, that is, the maximum sums that might be borrowed, hinge upon supply-side factors such as the availability of credit programs and the financial resources of lenders, it is plausible they are more exogenous than demand driven loan uptake or participation in microcredit organizations, the common ways of gauging access to microcredit. It is indicated that whereas the access to microcredit of adult female household members improves 06 year old girls', though not boys', long-term nutrition as measured by height-for-age, the access to microcredit of male members has no such salutary effect on either girls' or boys' nutritional status. This may be interpreted as evidence of a positive relation between women's relative control over household resources and young girls' food security. That women's access to microcredit improves young girls' long-term nutrition may be explained in part by the subsidiary finding that it raises household expenditure on food.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3793
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Thema
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Intra-household distribution
bargaining
microcredit
gender
Malawi
Mikrofinanzierung
Kinder
Ernährung
Landbevölkerung
Malawi
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Hazarika, Gautam
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2008
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081126670
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hazarika, Gautam
- Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2008
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