Adult health in the time of drought
This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of adult health, body mass, drawing on a unique panel data set of households residing in rural Zimbabwe. Controlling for individual, household, and community factors, and individual fixed, unobservable effects, we find women, but not men...
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2000
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| author | Hoddinott, John F. Kinsey, Bill |
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| description | This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of adult health, body mass, drawing on a unique panel data set of households residing in rural Zimbabwe. Controlling for individual, household, and community factors, and individual fixed, unobservable effects, we find women, but not men, are adversely affected by drought. However, these effects are not borne equally by all women. Women residing in poor households and daughters more generally appear to bear the brunt of this shock. Our results suggest that an ex ante private coping strategy, the accumulation of livestock, protects women against the adverse consequences of this shock. By contrast, we find that ex post public responses are not effective, though for several reasons we treat this finding with caution. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1580482025-11-06T06:53:41Z Adult health in the time of drought Hoddinott, John F. Kinsey, Bill drought livestock health gender nutrition This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of adult health, body mass, drawing on a unique panel data set of households residing in rural Zimbabwe. Controlling for individual, household, and community factors, and individual fixed, unobservable effects, we find women, but not men, are adversely affected by drought. However, these effects are not borne equally by all women. Women residing in poor households and daughters more generally appear to bear the brunt of this shock. Our results suggest that an ex ante private coping strategy, the accumulation of livestock, protects women against the adverse consequences of this shock. By contrast, we find that ex post public responses are not effective, though for several reasons we treat this finding with caution. 2000 2024-10-24T12:53:25Z 2024-10-24T12:53:25Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158048 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hoddinott, John F.; Kinsey, Bill. 2000. Adult health in the time of drought. FCND Discussion Paper 79. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158048 |
| spellingShingle | drought livestock health gender nutrition Hoddinott, John F. Kinsey, Bill Adult health in the time of drought |
| title | Adult health in the time of drought |
| title_full | Adult health in the time of drought |
| title_fullStr | Adult health in the time of drought |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adult health in the time of drought |
| title_short | Adult health in the time of drought |
| title_sort | adult health in the time of drought |
| topic | drought livestock health gender nutrition |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158048 |
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