Impact of women’s share of income on household expenditure in southeast Nigeria

IF 0.4 Q4 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE Pub Date : 2020-03-30 DOI:10.53936/afjare.2020.15(1).04

P. Opata, A. Ezeibe, Chikwuma Ume

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Abstract

The main focus of this paper was to: (i) determine the impact of women’s share of household income on the pattern of expenditure on various categories of basic goods in southeast Nigeria; (ii) explain the pattern of household expenditure using the bargaining model of household behaviour; and (iii) extrapolate the results to the policy implications of gender-specific control of household incomes. We used cross-sectional household data elicited from a sample of 400 households constituting 2 520 members collected from November 2016 to March 2017 and disaggregated by gender. We found that increasing women’s share of incomes raises the budget share for food, children’s clothes, children’s school fees, fuel for household services and other expenditure, although not significantly with the budget shares for alcohol and meals out of the home. Our results suggest that any strategy by policymakers in southeast Nigeria to improve any of the expenditure items should target the empowerment of the gender that will more likely spend their money on the items concerned.

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尼日利亚东南部妇女收入份额对家庭支出的影响

本文的主要重点是：（i）确定妇女在家庭收入中所占份额对尼日利亚东南部各类基本商品支出模式的影响；（ii）使用家庭行为的议价模型来解释家庭支出模式；以及（iii）将结果外推到按性别控制家庭收入的政策影响。我们使用了从2016年11月至2017年3月收集的400户家庭（共2520名成员）的横断面家庭数据，并按性别分类。我们发现，增加妇女的收入份额会提高食品、童装、儿童学费、家庭服务燃料和其他支出的预算份额，尽管与外出饮酒和用餐的预算份额相比没有显著差异。我们的研究结果表明，尼日利亚东南部政策制定者改善任何支出项目的任何战略都应以增强性别权能为目标，让他们更有可能将钱花在相关项目上。

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African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics-AFJARE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-

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期刊介绍： The African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AfJARE)/Journal Africain d’Economie Agricole et des Ressources (JAEAR) is a publication of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE). The journal publishes original research about how African agriculture interacts with local and global economic systems and policy regimes in its impacts upon people. The scope of the journal covers the roles of markets, technology, policy, institutions and the natural environment in shaping the lives of well being of Africans engaged in agricultural activities. The journal strives to nurture and enhance the capacity of African professionals to conduct and publish scientific research and provides a venue for communicating and disseminating their findings. Multi-disciplinary, problem-oriented articles are encouraged. Submissions may deal with teaching, research extension, consulting, advising, entrepreneurship and administration. The Chief Editors and Editorial Board, under the general direction of the AAAE President, Executive Committee and Council are charged with implementing Journal policy to serve members of AAAE. The main section of the journal publishes technical research articles while a small section is devoted to publishing brief notes with important policy content and book reviews. The journal is a quarterly publication.