Explaining the Gender Gap in Food Security in Côte d'Ivoire
Date
2021-11-15
Authors
N’Guessan, Beugré Jonathan
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Publisher
African Economic Research Consortium
Abstract
This study sets out to determine the explanatory factors of food insecurity
gap between female-headed households (FHs) and male-headed households
(MHs) in Côte d'Ivoire. Using data from the Household Living Standards Survey
in Côte d'Ivoire, which the National Institute of Statistics (INS) conducted in
2015, and the inequality decomposition method developed by Oaxaca and
Blinder (1973), the study fractions the food insecurity gap between male and female household heads according to explainable characteristics on the other,
and according to some other unexplained characteristics. The results show that
demographic variables such as household size, single and widow status, and a rural
area of residence essentially explain the food insecurity gap between FHs and MHs
in Côte d'Ivoire.