Gender Differences in Household Coping Strategies for COVID-19 in Kenya

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-9959

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Gender Differences in Household Coping Strategies for COVID-19 in Kenya

dc.contributor.author	Xu, Yuanwei
dc.contributor.author	Delius, Antonia Johanna Sophie
dc.contributor.author	Pape, Utz Johann
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-09T19:50:46Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-09T19:50:46Z
dc.date.issued	2022-03-07
dc.description.abstract	Understanding how different households cope with COVID-19 among a vulnerable population is important for the policy design aiming at relieving hunger and poverty in a low income setting. This paper uses original household data from five waves of a phone survey conducted between May 2020 and June 2021 in Kenya (sample size 31,715) and investigates the gender differences in household coping strategies during the COVID-19 shock. It finds that female-headed households are less likely to cope by selling assets or taking loans, compared with male-headed households. Instead, femaleheaded households rely more on social networks to cope. No difference in coping by reducing meals is observed across these two types of households. This paper documents that the reasons behind the gender difference include that female-headed households are poorer, and they are more likely to rely on friends and family to cope with shocks even prior to the COVID-19 shock. The findings suggest that widowed and divorced women are in high need of relief programs, and governments should provide easily accessible loans to avoid negative impacts in the long term from households selling assets.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/861451646668280669/Gender-Differences-in-Household-Coping-Strategies-for-COVID-19-in-Kenya
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-9959
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/37111
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper; 9959
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	GENDER DIFFERENCE
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD HEAD AGE
dc.subject	POVERTY AND EQUITY
dc.subject	GENDER INEQUALITY
dc.subject	INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
dc.subject	ANALYSIS OF POVERTY
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
dc.title	Gender Differences in Household Coping Strategies for COVID-19 in Kenya	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
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okr.date.disclosure	2022-03-07
okr.date.lastmodified	2022-03-07T00:00:00Z	en
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okr.doctype	Publications & Research
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okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.administrative	Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.country	Kenya
okr.topic	Gender and Development
okr.topic	Gender and Poverty
okr.topic	Gender and Economics
okr.topic	Inequality
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topic	Gender
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction
okr.unit	EFI-EAP-POV-Poverty and Equity (EEAPV)
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