Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh
This article was published in the Economic Analysis and Policy [© 2016 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland ] and the definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.004 The Journal's website is at: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0313592616300169
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10361-96602018-03-15T06:53:30Z Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh Bidisha, Sayema Haque Khan, Akib Imran, Khalid Khondker, Bazlul Haque Suhrawardy, Gazi Mohammad Credit Dietary diversity Food security Household survey Selection bias This article was published in the Economic Analysis and Policy [© 2016 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland ] and the definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.004 The Journal's website is at: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0313592616300169 This work attempts to disentangle the relationship between credit, food security, and dietary diversity in the context of Bangladesh through descriptive and econometric analyses of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey of 2010 as well as a supplementary primary survey of 1200 households. To adequately address potential selection bias, we apply a variant of propensity score matching as well as an instrumental variable technique based on the distance from the nearest financial institution to account for endogeneity in our estimates. Our analysis reveals that access to credit tends to improve food security and allows households to achieve greater dietary diversity. In particular, food security is proxied by calorie consumption, and households with credit access tend to have greater calorie consumption per capita. Dietary diversity is measured through a number of dietary diversity scores, such as the food consumption score and the household dietary diversity score, and households with access to credit score higher than those without according to such measures. The results have been found to be robust following correction for endogeneity issues, and the paper therefore provides empirical evidence in favor of policies supporting accessible credit for poor households in Bangladesh. Published 2018-03-15T06:51:36Z 2018-03-15T06:51:36Z 2017-03-01 Article Bidisha, S. H., Khan, A., Imran, K., Khondker, B. H., & Suhrawardy, G. M. (2017). Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in bangladesh. Economic Analysis and Policy, 53, 33-45. 10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.004 03135926 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/9660 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.004 en https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0313592616300169?via%3Dihub © 2017 Elsevier B.V. |
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This article was published in the Economic Analysis and Policy [© 2016 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland ] and the definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.004 The Journal's website is at: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0313592616300169 |
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Bidisha, Sayema Haque Khan, Akib Imran, Khalid Khondker, Bazlul Haque Suhrawardy, Gazi Mohammad |
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Bidisha, Sayema Haque Khan, Akib Imran, Khalid Khondker, Bazlul Haque Suhrawardy, Gazi Mohammad |
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Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh |
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Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh |
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Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh |
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Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh |
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role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in bangladesh |
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. |
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