农业投入补贴的意外后果:妇女使用避孕药具及对子女的连锁反应

IF 1.6 Q2 DEMOGRAPHY JOURNAL OF POPULATION RESEARCH Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI:10.1007/s12546-024-09337-y
Martin Limbikani Mwale, Tony Mwenda Kamninga
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撒哈拉以南非洲国家采用农业投入补贴的双重目标是加强粮食安全和减少贫困。许多学者根据这些预期影响来评估补贴,却忽视了潜在的意外后果。在本文中,我们利用马拉维 2020 年多指标类集调查中罕见的避孕药具使用情况和补贴计划的综合信息,研究马拉维的农业投入补贴计划(FISP)是否影响了妇女的避孕药具使用情况。利用工具变量法,我们发现生活在 FISP 家庭中的妇女增加了避孕药具的使用。这与以下假设相吻合,即这些妇女旨在避孕,因此将不间断的时间用于农业生产,这与 FISP 计划相辅相成。妇女有更多的时间务农可能意味着她们有更少的时间做家务。因此,我们进一步调查了同一家庭中的子女是否更多地参与家务劳动,以接替务农妇女的工作。我们发现情况确实如此。因此,这些研究结果凸显了了解福利计划的预期后果和意外后果的重要性,以确保这些计划的影响不会被高估或低估。
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Unintended consequences of farm input subsidies: women’s contraceptive usage and knock-on effects on children

Sub-Saharan Africa’s countries adopted farm input subsidies, with a twin goal of bolstering food security and reducing poverty. Many scholars evaluate the subsidies against these intended impacts, while ignoring the potential unintended consequences. In this paper, we take advantage of a rare combination of information on both contraceptive usage and a subsidy program, from Malawi’s 2020 multiple indicator cluster survey, to investigate whether Malawi’s farm input subsidy program (FISP) affected women’s contraceptive usage. Using the instrumental variables method, we find that women that lived in FISP households increased contraceptives usage. This is in line with the hypothesis that the women aimed to prevent pregnancy, and hence dedicate uninterrupted time to farming, complementing the FISP. More of women’s time in farming could imply less of their time in domestic chores. We, therefore, further investigated whether children, in the same households, increased participation in the domestic chores, to take up roles left by the farming women. We find that this is the case. These findings therefore highlight the importance of understanding both the intended and unintended consequences of welfare programmes to ensure that the impacts of such programmes are not over-or underestimated.

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期刊介绍: The Journal of Population Research is a peer-reviewed, international journal which publishes papers on demography and population-related issues. Coverage is not restricted geographically. The Journal publishes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Submissions may take the form of original research papers, perspectives, review articles and shorter technical research notes. Special issues emanating from conferences and other meetings are also considered.
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