Tropical Forests Provide Gendered Insurance against Illness

IF 1.3 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Land Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI:10.3368/le.100.2.111022-0096r

Yoshito Takasaki, Oliver T. Coomes, Christian Abizaid

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Abstract

Tropical forest peoples rely on wild resources to cope with adverse shocks, i.e., natural insurance; however, research has shown its limited scope against health shocks that constrain labor supply responses. This paper examines natural insurance against illness through the lens of gender. We conducted a large-scale household survey in the Peruvian Amazon, where wild resource harvesting is mostly done by males. We find that fishing and nontimber forest product gathering increased against female illness and remittances increased against male illness, suggesting that the scope of natural insurance and risk sharing against illness is shaped by gender in a complementary way.

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热带森林提供性别疾病保险

热带森林民族依靠野生资源来应对不利冲击，即自然保险;然而，研究表明，它对限制劳动力供应反应的健康冲击的作用有限。本文从性别的角度考察了自然保险对疾病的防范。我们在秘鲁亚马逊地区进行了一次大规模的家庭调查，在那里，野生资源的采集主要是由男性完成的。研究发现，女性患病时，渔业和非木材林产品采集增加，男性患病时，汇款增加，这表明自然保险和疾病风险分担的范围以一种互补的方式由性别决定。

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Land Economics Multiple-

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