Does Women's Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India?

Katsushi Imai, Samuel Annim, Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha
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Veena S. Kulkarni: Department of Criminology, Sociology & Geography, Arkansas State University, USA
Raghav Gaiha: Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India

No DP2013-33, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: This study investigates whether mother's empowerment as measured by her bargaining power relative to father's affects children's nutritional status using the three rounds of NFHS data in India. First, the relative educational attainment of mothers significantly contributes to z scores pertaining to the short-term measures of nutritional status of children. Besides, the quantile regression results show strong associations between women's bargaining power and better nutritional status of children in terms of the long-term measure of nutrition at the low end of its conditional distribution. Finally, we find the relation between access to health schemes and better nutritional measures of children.

Keywords: Child Nutrition; Malnutrition; Empowerment; Bargaining; NFHS; NCAER; Quantile Regressions; Pseudo Panel; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C23 C26 I14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10
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Working Paper: Does Women's Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India? (2012)
Working Paper: Does Women’s Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India? (2012)
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