Coping with food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe: does household head gender matter?

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 7 OLS estimates of gender heterogeneity in the usage of coping strategies when confronted with food and nutrition insecurity

Variables	Hunger score	Poor food consumption score	Never consumes minerals	Never consumes proteins	Never consumes iron
Variables	(I)	(II)	(IV)	(V)	(IV)
Panel A
Household head is female × Consumption-based coping strategy index	− 0.000212	7.69e–05	8.64e–05	0.000337***	− 0.000197
	(0.000338)	(0.000128)	(0.000134)	(0.000124)	(0.000137)
Household head is female	0.0353***	0.0254***	0.00988**	0.0326***	0.0664***
	(0.00726)	(0.00344)	(0.00462)	(0.00347)	(0.00473)
Consumption-based coping strategy index	0.0149***	0.00355***	0.00195***	0.00262***	0.00405***
	(0.000203)	(7.83e–05)	(8.25e–05)	(7.40e–05)	(8.63e–05)
Panel B
Household head is female × Livelihoods-based coping strategy index	− 0.0329***	− 0.0110***	0.000742	− 0.00511	− 0.0164***
	(0.0114)	(0.00374)	(0.00390)	(0.00356)	(0.00436)
Household head is female	0.0763***	0.0379***	0.0186***	0.0458***	0.0741***
	(0.00966)	(0.00399)	(0.00431)	(0.00401)	(0.00531)
Livelihoods-based coping strategy index	0.222***	0.0344***	0.0260***	0.0211***	0.0312***
	(0.00635)	(0.00212)	(0.00216)	(0.00195)	(0.00247)

Notes: Regression results control for province as well as survey year dummies. Robust standard errors in parentheses
***, **, and * indicate the 1, 5, and 10% levels of significance