Protectionism and Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
15.10.2019 12:30 – 13:30
GENEVA TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP / ABSTRACT
How do tariffs impact gender inequality? Using harmonized household survey and tariff data from 54 low- and middle income countries, this paper shows that protectionism has an anti-female bias. On average, tariffs repress the real incomes of female headed households by 0.6 percentage points relative to that of male headed ones. Female headed households bear the brunt of tariffs because they derive a smaller share of their income from and spend a larger share of their budget on agricultural products, which are usually subject to high tariffs in developing countries. Consistent with this explanation, the anti-female bias is stronger in countries where female-headed households are underrepresented in agricultural production, more reliant on remittances, and pending a comparatively larger share of their budgets on food than male-headed ones.
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Bâtiment: IHEID
Graduate Institute
Maison de la Paix
Petal 2, Room S4
2 Chemin Eugène-Rigot
1202 Geneva
Organisé par
Faculté d'économie et de managementInstitute of Economics and Econometrics
Intervenant-e-s
Nicolas DEPETRIS CHAUVIN, Haute école de gestion de Genèveentrée libre
Classement
Catégorie: Séminaire
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