What determines gender inequality in household food security in Kenya? application of exogenous switching treatment regression

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dc.contributor.authorMenale, Kassie
dc.contributor.authorNdiritu, Simon W.
dc.contributor.authorStage, Jesper
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-20T15:25:26Z
dc.date.available2015-07-20T15:25:26Z
dc.date.issued2014-04
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the link between the gender of a household head and food security in rural Kenya. The results show that the food security gap between male-headed households (MHHs) and female-headed households (FHHs) is explained by their differences in observable and unobservable characteristics. FHHs’ food security status would have been higher than it is now if the returns (coefficients) on their observed characteristics had been the same as the returns on the MHHs’ characteristics. Even if that had been the case, however, results indicate that FHHs would still have been less food-secure than the MHHs due to unobservable characteristics.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11071/4003
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherScienceDirecten_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectfood securityen_US
dc.subjectinequalityen_US
dc.subjectexogenous switching treatment regressionen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.titleWhat determines gender inequality in household food security in Kenya? application of exogenous switching treatment regressionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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