Women and poverty: insights from individual consumption in Albania

Betti, Gianni; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca

doi:10.1007/s11150-019-09452-3

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“…A detailed description of the model for a complete collective demand system can be found in Menon et al (2018) and . As in the present work, also Betti et al (2020) simplifies the framework to a system of collective Engel curves. However, as far as the intrahousehold distribution of resources is unrelated with the prices of the goods entering in the demand system, both estimation strategies would produce the same estimates for the sharing rule.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…While most of these studies develop full demand systems, we make use of the identification strategy proposed by Menon et al (2018) and , but without price variation, thus developing a collective Engel curves system as in Betti et al (2020). As the identification strategy is based on individual-specific consumption information, the observation of suitable distribution factors is not strictly required, but their inclusion can substantially improve identification.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, such behavior cannot be guaranteed a priori and the welfare consequences caused by unfair intrahousehold distribution or discriminatory decisions against female household members may be serious and motivate policy interventions. Rosenzweig (1986) and several recent empirical tests (Alam, 2012;de Brauw et al, 2014;Vijaya et al, 2014;Dunbar et al, 2013;Wang, 2014;Bargain et al, 2014;Betti et al, 2020) have consistently rejected the hypothesis of a single decision-maker household in developing and transition countries, where highly variable socio-economic conditions and culture may favor the rise of considerable intrahousehold inequality issues.…”

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Gender Inequalities Among Adults and Children: Exposure to Migration and the Evolution of Social Norms in Albania

Mangiavacchi

Piccoli

2021

J Fam Econ Iss

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This paper studies the distribution of resources within Albanian families in 2012 using a collective consumption model with two alternative specifications: the first enables the estimation of the intrahousehold distribution of resources among male adults, female adults and children; the second extends the analysis to girls and boys. In line with previous evidence on gender inequality in Albania, the results show that the female share of resources is substantially lower with respect to the male share, and that sons receive a larger share of resources than daughters. Considering that Albania experienced massive migration and return of young men in the 20 years before the survey, we further analyze the potential migration-induced transfer of gender norms. We find that the time spent abroad by the husband of the main couple has little influence on woman’s relative position within the households, however it does seem to favor a more equal treatment between daughters and sons. This result suggests that gender norms are more persistent in adult couples, however gender attitudes towards offspring are more elastic to social change.

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Gender Inequalities Among Adults and Children: Exposure to Migration and the Evolution of Social Norms in Albania

Mangiavacchi

Piccoli

2021

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“…It is important to emphasise that poverty-gender heterogeneities have a long-standing history with women continuously being disfavoured (S. A. Grossbard-Shechtman & Neuman, 1988;Betti et al, 2020;Depew & Price, 2018;S. Grossbard-Shechtman & Neuman, 1998).…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: A micro-perspective

Bukari

Essilfie

Aning-Agyei

et al. 2021

Cogent Economics & Finance

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The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has become a global epidemic, hit Ghana on 12 March 2020 and, in less than a week, increased by over 300% with two deaths. As of 11 August 2020, Ghana had recorded over 41,000 cases with over 215 deaths. This study seeks to provide a micro-level evidence on how COVID-19 is posing a threat to some of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards of Ghanaian households. The study further analysed which class of persons within the income distributions has been mostly hit by the pandemic. Data on 3,905 households were obtained via concurrent online survey and telephone interviews. Multiple analytical approaches were employed-Ordinary least squares, probit model and simultaneous quantile regressions. Results showed that COVID-19 had significantly increased the poverty levels of households while deteriorating living standards. The study also discovered that gender and locational heterogeneities exist regarding the impact of COVID-19 with females and rural dwellers mostly disadvantaged. However, simultaneous quantile regression result shows that in terms of overall household consumption, those in the middle and upper classes are profoundly affected compared to those in the lowest class. A ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chei Bukari is a Course Demonstrator and researcher in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He has over five years of teaching and extensive research experience. His area of research includes poverty, inequality, finance and corruption. He has several research papers in refereed journals in these fields of interest. He has worked with several reputable organization including Ghana Statistical Service. The major contribution of this study is that COVID-19 is undermining Ghana's efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly poverty and hunger. By implication, while governments must not be complacent in their fight against COVID-19, post-COVID-19 policies will require extra-efforts if agenda 2030 (i.e., SDGs) is to be achieved.

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“…Poverty-gender heterogeneities have a long standing history with women continuously being disfavoured (Grossbard-Shechtman, & Neuman, 1988. 1998Grossbard, 2014;Depew, & Price, 2018;Betti, Mangiavacchi, & Piccoli, 2020). Thus, the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has received growing concerns (Alon, Doepke, Olmstead-Rumsey & Tertilt, 2020;Wenham, Smith & Morgan, 2020) that the existing gender inequalities is likely to exacerbate given that labor markets and family obligations often constrain females in competition against men on the economic front.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: A micro perspective

Bukari

Essilfie

Aning-Agyei

et al. 2020

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Abstract The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has become a global epidemic, hit Ghana on 12th March 2020 and, in less than a week, increased by over 300 percent with two deaths. As of 11th June 2020, Ghana had recorded over 11,000 cases with 48 deaths. This study seeks to provide a micro-level evidence on how COVID-19 is posing a threat to some of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty and hunger in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards of Ghanaian households. It also analyzed which class of persons within the income distributions is mostly hit by the pandemic. Data on 3,905 households were obtained via concurrent online survey and telephone interviews. Multiple analytical approaches were employed: Ordinary least squares, probit model and simultaneous quantile regressions. The results showed that COVID-19 had significantly increased the poverty levels of households, while deteriorating living standards. The study also showed that gender and locational heterogeneities exist regarding the impact of COVID-19 with females and rural dwellers mostly disadvantaged. However, the simultaneous quantile regression showed that in terms of overall household consumption, those in the middle and upper classes were heavily affected compared to those in the lowest class. A key policy implication from this study is that Ghana needs to broaden its social protection programmes to assist both the new poor and existing poor.

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Women and poverty: insights from individual consumption in Albania

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Gender Inequalities Among Adults and Children: Exposure to Migration and the Evolution of Social Norms in Albania

Gender Inequalities Among Adults and Children: Exposure to Migration and the Evolution of Social Norms in Albania

Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: A micro-perspective

Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: A micro perspective

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