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    Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in Bangladesh

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    Date
    2017-03-01
    Publisher
    © 2017 Elsevier B.V.
    Author
    Bidisha, Sayema Haque
    Khan, Akib
    Imran, Khalid
    Khondker, Bazlul Haque
    Suhrawardy, Gazi Mohammad
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    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10361/9660
    Citation
    Bidisha, S. H., Khan, A., Imran, K., Khondker, B. H., & Suhrawardy, G. M. (2017). Role of credit in food security and dietary diversity in bangladesh. Economic Analysis and Policy, 53, 33-45. 10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.004
    Abstract
    This work attempts to disentangle the relationship between credit, food security, and dietary diversity in the context of Bangladesh through descriptive and econometric analyses of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey of 2010 as well as a supplementary primary survey of 1200 households. To adequately address potential selection bias, we apply a variant of propensity score matching as well as an instrumental variable technique based on the distance from the nearest financial institution to account for endogeneity in our estimates. Our analysis reveals that access to credit tends to improve food security and allows households to achieve greater dietary diversity. In particular, food security is proxied by calorie consumption, and households with credit access tend to have greater calorie consumption per capita. Dietary diversity is measured through a number of dietary diversity scores, such as the food consumption score and the household dietary diversity score, and households with access to credit score higher than those without according to such measures. The results have been found to be robust following correction for endogeneity issues, and the paper therefore provides empirical evidence in favor of policies supporting accessible credit for poor households in Bangladesh.
    Keywords
    Credit; Dietary diversity; Food security; Household survey; Selection bias
     
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    This article was published in the Economic Analysis and Policy [© 2016 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland ] and the definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.004 The Journal's website is at: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0313592616300169
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    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0313592616300169?via%3Dihub
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.004
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