HEALTH, NUTRITION, RURAL HOUSEHOLD INCOMES AND LABOR ALLOCATION: ECONOMETRIC EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH

Mona Sur

No 21787, 2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This paper estimates the returns to health and nutrition in both farm and off-farm activities of agricultural households in rural Bangladesh. The findings of this paper indicate that the health of adults in rural Bangladesh influences the households' choice of employment activities as well as their incomes given their participation decisions. Adult height has a significant positive effect on off-farm self-employment incomes as well as total household incomes. Higher adult BMIs also appear to increase total household incomes.

Keywords: Consumer/Household; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.21787

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