Shocks in food availability and intra-household resources allocation: evidence on children nutrition outcomes in Ethiopia

Agricultural and Food Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Tesfay, Gebremeskel Berhane ^a,b   Abidoye, Babatunde ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender preference; Mixed effects model; Nutrition bias; Resources; Shock index

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061719325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21937532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40100-019-0120-1     Document Type: Article

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