Food Security and Nutrition Implications of Intrahousehold Bias: A Review of Literature

摘要: The success of development policy depends on the ability to successfully anticipate response individuals changing incentives. Often, however, actual responses differ from anticipated responses. One important reason for this divergence is a poor understanding how rights, responsibilities, and resources are allocated within institutions such as household. insights derived intrahousehold research between late 1970s mid-1980s determinants food nutritional status served an catalyst general approach analysis. Despite serving building block wider study resource allocation, there has not been in-depth review sex gender differences in consumption nutrition literature past 10 years. This paper seeks fill gap. In addition, undertakes poverty literature, because economic access so fundamental security nutrition. Why gap fill? First, availability series new studies years affords us opportunity get clearer picture where occur. Second, number outside community may have some lessons programming. Finally, measurement issues emerged their importance can be illustrated well this. These three considerations, then, form basis formulating objectives paper. Specifically, aims (1) critically existing distribution other proximate factors household (with emphasis boy-girl differences), (2) areas gender, income earning, drawing out implications programs, (3) highlight methodological concerns related poverty, income, measurement.