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Gender Inequality: One of the Greatest Drivers of World Hunger

Seth Gitter () and Grace Larocque
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Seth Gitter: Department of Economics, Towson University
Grace Larocque: Towson University

No 2024-07, Working Papers from Towson University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Gender inequality is consistently left out of the conversation about global hunger, with most literature focusing on poverty, conflict, natural disasters, or governance as driving factors. We theorize, however, that gender inequality is in fact one of the greatest drivers of world hunger. We find that gender inequality has an associated relationship with a country level measure of hunger, the Global Hunger Index, almost three times that of other driving factors in hunger using a country fixed effects regression. Our findings suggest that programs targeted toward improving gender equality may have higher rates of return for reducing hunger.

Keywords: Global Hunger Index; Gender. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 O2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2024-06, Revised 2024-06
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