Does reducing violence against women improve children’s health? The case of Cameroon

Christian T. Litchepah, Issidor. Noumba and Mohammadou. Nourou
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Christian T. Litchepah: Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Maroua, Cameroon
Issidor. Noumba: Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Yaounde II Soa, Cameroon
Mohammadou. Nourou: Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Maroua, Cameroon

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022, vol. 6, issue 6, 187-194

Abstract: Improving child health is one of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. It is also seen as a means of promoting their well-being. The empirical literature on the relationship between child health and domestic violence is less clear. Using quantitative data from the Cameroon Demographic Health Survey, this study explores the effect of domestic violence, as measured by physical, sexual and emotional abuse, on health indicators of birth weight, growth and occurrence of diarrhea episodes in children. Emphasis is placed on the potential endogeneity of domestic violence that could bias the relationship between child health and domestic violence. The econometric method used was either a probit with instrumental variable or a two-step least square. The results are mixed. We observe a non-significant effect of domestic violence, whatever its form, on the birth weight and growth of the child. On the other hand, a significant effect, albeit slight (10%), of physical violence on the contraction of diarrhea by the child was observed.

Date: 2022
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