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The gendered impacts of income fluctuations on household departure, labor supply, and human capital decisions: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Content Provider	Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Author	Kosec, Katrina Song, Jie Zhao, Hongdi Holtemeyer, Brian
Organization	IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
Spatial Coverage	Kyrgyzstan [KG]
Description	How do fluctuations in income affect labor supply decisions, and how do their effects differ by gender? We analyze data from a 13-year rolling panel in Kyrgyzstan spanning 2004—2016. We address the endogeneity of fluctuations in income to labor supply decisions using a household fixed effects model and exploiting region-level changes over time in growth rates of different sources of revenue and production costs to which households have varying levels of baseline exposure. We find that reductions in income relative to the median spur departure from the household (e.g., due to migration or new household formation), with smaller impacts on women than men. However, women’s labor supply at the origin is affected significantly more than that of men, with short-term increases in hours of employment and declines in home production and other activities. Reductions in income also fuel temporary migration for both genders, with larger effects for men, and widen the gender gap in pursuit of non-compulsory education.
Sponsorship	Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
Related Links	https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/a0c23937-2446-4ab1-9c83-46833d489ef8
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.2499/p15738coll2.134563
Language	English
Publisher	International Food Policy Research Institute
Publisher Place	Washington, DC
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Policies, Institutions, and Markets Income Human Capital Gender Households Employment Income Distribution Labor Supply Migration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science

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