Tropical Forests Provide Gendered Insurance against Illness
基于秘鲁亚马逊的大规模家庭调查，研究发现男性采集的渔获和非木材林产品用于应对女性疾病，而汇款用于应对男性疾病，表明自然保险和风险分担在疾病冲击下具有性别互补性。
<h3>Abstract</h3> Tropical forest peoples rely on wild resources to cope with adverse shocks, i.e., natural insurance; however, research has shown its limited scope against health shocks that constrain labor supply responses. This paper examines natural insurance against illness through the lens of gender. We conducted a large-scale household survey in the Peruvian Amazon, where wild resource harvesting is mostly done by males. We find that fishing and nontimber forest product gathering increased against female illness and remittances increased against male illness, suggesting that the scope of natural insurance and risk sharing against illness is shaped by gender in a complementary way.