Women's empowerment and prevalence of stunted and underweight children in rural India

Katsushi S. Imai; Samuel Kobina Annim; Veena S. Kulkarni; Raghav Gaiha

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.001

Women's empowerment and prevalence of stunted and underweight children in rural India

Katsushi S. Imai, Samuel Kobina Annim, Veena S. Kulkarni, Raghav Gaiha

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This study investigates whether mother's empowerment measured by her education attainment relative to father's, domestic violence, and autonomy is related to children's nutritional status using the three rounds of NFHS data in India. First, mother's relative education is associated with better nutritional status of children in the short run. Second, the quantile regression results show strong associations between women's empowerment and better nutritional status of children in the long run at the low end of its conditional distribution. Finally, the relation between access to health schemes and better nutritional measures of children. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	888-105
Number of pages	783
Journal	World Development
Volume	62
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.001
Publication status	Published - 2 Jun 2014

Keywords

Bargaining
Child nutrition
Empowerment
India
NFHS
Quantile regressions

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On the Change of Poverty and Undernutrition in Rural India
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Women's empowerment and prevalence of stunted and underweight children in rural India

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