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Examining gender inequalities in factors associated with income poverty in Mexican rural households
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e0259187 (2021), Repositori Universitat Jaume I, Universitat Jaume I, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- According to 2016 official estimates, almost 60% of the rural population in Mexico (16.9 million people) had income levels below the poverty line, and approximately 29.2% (8.3 million) could not even afford the basic food basket. Whereas most poverty research disregards gender and exclusively analyzes average income or the expected probability of being poor, we depart from these approaches by examining the effect of potential risk factors on two of the lowest quantiles of income-to-poverty ratio distribution, namely the corresponding to poor and extremely poor families. Focusing on identifying heterogeneous effects according to the sex of the household head, we apply additive quantile models to a cross-sectional dataset containing information on 4,434 women-headed and 14,877 men-headed households. For each model, we introduce 45 variables at the individual/household, community, and regional levels. Two major contributions emerge from this paper. First, the identification of a subset of significant factors whose effect is independent of the head’s sex and is relevant for poor and extremely poor families. This is found for the variables credit card ownership, access to basic housing services, education level, and satisfaction with public services. Second, results also identify a subset of significant factors with an uneven effect on income according to the sex of the head that is observed both in the poor and extremely poor households. Variables having this gendered effect are the community’s income inequality, municipal human development, social networks, access to social security, and gender-based violence against women in the public sphere. Out of these, particularly relevant is the effect of the last three factors, whose association with income has not been explored before for rural Mexico and for which the bias among sexes increases as family income grows from extreme poverty to poverty level.
- Subjects :
- Gender Equity
Male
Rural Population
Computer and Information Sciences
Domestic Violence
sexual and gender issues
Epidemiology
Science
Social Sciences
schools
Criminology
Risk Assessment
Geographical locations
Education
Sexual and Gender Issues
Sociology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Humans
Public and Occupational Health
Human Families
Mexico
Poverty
Violent Crime
socioeconomic aspects of health
housing
Educational Attainment
Nutrition
Family Characteristics
Traumatic Injury Risk Factors
Biology and Life Sciences
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Diet
Health Care
Cross-Sectional Studies
Social Networks
Food
Medical Risk Factors
North America
Income
Medicine
Female
Crime
People and places
Network Analysis
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PloS one
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....bf9c68c7e6ae6f87ecefee0e3b342f73