What about the Women? Female Headship, Poverty and Vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
What about the Women? Female Headship, Poverty and Vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
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那么女性呢？
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2010
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Felix Povel
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Stephan Klasen;T. Lechtenfeld;Felix Povel
本文调查了泰国和越南不同类型的女性户主家庭在当前消费、冲击风险、消费平滑能力以及贫困和下行风险脆弱性方面是否处于不利地位。使用两国 4000 多个农村家庭的独特面板数据集，我们发现丈夫不在身边的女户主家庭在两国的当前消费方面似乎状况较好（表明汇款产生了积极影响）。然而，泰国和越南法律上的女户主家庭更容易受到冲击，并且与其他家庭相比，确保其消费免受收入冲击的能力更弱。根据这一发现，法律上女性户主家庭也更容易受到下行风险的影响。相反，事实上的女性户主家庭不太容易陷入贫困，而且在遭受下行风险的脆弱性方面也不会变得更糟。
This paper investigates whether different types of female?headed households in Thailand and Vietnam are disadvantaged in terms of current consumption, exposure to shocks, consumption smoothing capacities, as well as vulnerability to poverty and downside risk. Using a unique panel data set of over 4000 rural households in both countries, we find that female headed households with an absent husband appear to be better off in terms of current consumption in both countries (suggesting a positive impact of remittances). However, de jure female headed households in Thailand and Vietnam are more exposed to shocks and are less able to insure their consumption against income shocks than other households. In line with this finding de jure female headed households are also more vulnerable to perceived downside risk. Instead, de facto female headed households are less vulnerable to poverty and not worse off in terms of vulnerability to perceived downside risk.