Income diversification and household welfare in Tanzania 2008-2013

Rumman Khan and Oliver Morrissey

No wp-2020-110, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper uses three waves of Tanzanian National Panel Surveys (2008/09, 2010/11, and 2012/13) to construct a panel from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household welfare measured in terms of food consumption. The analysis considers three sources of labour income in addition to farming. Increasing diversification is associated with higher welfare, but there are differences by gender and activity type. Non-agricultural wage employment is clearly beneficial, irrespective of gender, and has had relatively high growth.

Keywords: Income diversification; Labour income; Gender; Household welfare; Welfare; Tanzania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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