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Differences in Food Insecurity between Girls and Boys: Evidence from Zimbabwe

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  • Craig Gundersen
  • Oluyemisi Kuku
  • Thomas Kelly

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Using data from a 2004 household-based survey of children, we examine differences between boys and girls in self reports of food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Previous studies have taken only the views of the household head into consideration in categorizing the food insecurity status of the household. By so doing, the possibilities of differential experiences of food insecurity by individual household members were ignored. Results show no gender differences in food insecurity for the children surveyed across all three measures of food insecurity utilized in this paper.

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  • Craig Gundersen & Oluyemisi Kuku & Thomas Kelly, 2007. "Differences in Food Insecurity between Girls and Boys: Evidence from Zimbabwe," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2007-53, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:rp2007-53
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