Development and nutrition. The role of social norms

Development and nutrition. The role of social norms

1st

978-88-238-5130-6

Milan (Italy) EGEA 2015

English

119 p.

338.4 L11

IF000014899

After a review of the literature on social norms that affect the informal economies in developing countries, the book presents the outcome of a natural experiment, which exploits the introduction of a new law in Ghana in the mid ‘80s, which introduced the possibility to transmit land property to children even in matrilineal ethnic groups, such as the Akan, for whom traditional descent rules prescribed that children could not inherit from their own parents. The new law, the scholars observe, improved male children’s nutrition, because it led parents to invest more resources in children’s health. Akan males, after the reform, have closed the height gap they used to suffer in comparison with boys of other ethnic groups.

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