男性外出务工、女性赋权与家庭成员蛋白质摄入——来自欠发达地区农村的证据

Male Labor Migration, Women Empowerment and Household Protein Intake: Evidence from Less Developed Rural Areas in China

本文利用2015年和2018年贵州、云南、陕西和甘肃四省欠发达地区农村2089份农户追踪调查数据,运用固定效应模型实证分析男性外出务工、女性赋权对家庭成员的蛋白质营养物质摄入的影响,并进一步探究女性赋权在男性外出务工对家庭成员蛋白质摄入的影响中的作用。结果表明:男性外出务工不仅能提高家庭成员蛋白质摄入,还可促进女性赋权;同时,女性赋权的改善也可提高家庭成员蛋白质摄入。另外,总体而言,女性赋权在男性外出务工对家庭成员蛋白质摄入的影响中发挥部分中介效应,尤其是在收入较高的农户组,女性赋权发挥完全中介效应。本文认为,在推动男性外出务工增加农户收入的基础上,可通过进一步提高女性赋权来促进家庭成员蛋白质摄入。

Based on the tracking survey data of 2089 rural households in less developed areas of Guizhou,Yunnan,Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in 2015 and 2018,this article applies a panel fixed effect model to estimate the impacts of male labor migration and women empowerment on farmer households’protein intake.It further analyzes the role of women empowerment in the pathway of male labor migration impact on farmer households’protein intake.The estimation results show that male labor migration does not only increase households’protein intake,but also imposes positive effect on women empowerment.Meanwhile,women empowerment can significantly increase farmer households’protein intake in less developed rural areas.After carrying out mediation effect test,the study finds that women empowerment plays a partial mediation role in the effect of male labor migration on households’protein intake.Furthermore,it finds that women empowerment has a total mediation effect on the male labor migration and households’protein intake in the higher income group.Therefore,women empowerment can be a second method to improve households’protein intake on the basis of increasing households’income by improving labor migration.