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Does food insecurity impact subjective evaluation of well-being? Evidence from a developing country
인도ㆍ남아시아 일반 / 동남아시아 일반 / 러시아ㆍ유라시아 일반 / 아프리카ㆍ중동 일반 / 중남미 일반 / 중동부유럽 일반 국외연구자료 기타 Wisdom Akpalu, Aaron K. Christian and Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe UNU-WIDER 발간일 : 2015-03-01 등록일 : 2015-03-09 원문링크
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Abstract
Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted Van Praag’s theoretical framework and used household survey data from Ghana to investigate the monetary income which households facing severe food insecurity require to reach a given level of verbal qualification of well-being. We found that households that are food insecure require a higher monetary income to reach the same level of verbal qualification of well-being than their counterparts who are food secure. Furthermore, per capita household income levels positively correlate with monetary income requirements, indicating a weak correlation between food security and per capita household income. Households that receive support from others require a lower level of income than either those who give support or those who neither give nor receive support.