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- Title
Tropical Forests Provide Gendered Insurance against Illness.
- Authors
Takasaki, Yoshito; Coomes, Oliver T.; Abizaid, Christian
- Abstract
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 article examines natural insurance against illness through the lens of gender. We conducted a large-scale household survey in the Peruvian Amazon, where men mostly do wild resource harvesting. We found 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. (JEL O13, O15)
- Subjects
TROPICAL forests; INSURANCE; LABOR supply; ACTUARIAL risk; RISK sharing; FISHERS; INSURANCE agents
- Publication
Land Economics, 2024, Vol 100, Issue 2, p314
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3368/le.100.2.111022-0096r