Impact of off‐farm income on food expenditures in rural Bangladesh: an unconditional quantile regression approach
研究了非农收入对孟加拉国农村家庭食品支出的影响，发现除第25分位点外，非农收入显著增加各分位点的食品支出，且女性户主且从事非农工作的家庭食品支出显著较低。
Abstract This study examines the effects of off‐farm income on food expenditures of rural Bangladeshi households. Our analysis yields unbiased estimates of the unconditional impact of off‐farm income on food expenditures and reveals the heterogeneous effects that occur across the distribution of total food consumption expenditures. The findings suggest that the impacts of off‐farm income are uniformly positive across the unconditional quantile regression and significantly increase food consumption expenditures for all quantiles, except for the 25th quantile. In addition, we found that schooling, experience, and location of the household increase the food expenditures of rural households. Most importantly, this article argues that female‐headed rural households in which the female works off the farm tend to have significantly lower food expenditures.