The Effect of Women’s Bargaining Power on Child Nutrition in Rural Senegal

Aurélia Lépine () and Eric Strobl ()

World Development, 2013, vol. 45, issue C, 17-30

Abstract: We examine how women’s bargaining power affects child nutritional status using data from rural Senegal. In order to correct for the potential endogeneity of women’s bargaining power we use information on a mother’s ethnicity relative to that of the community she resides in order to construct an arguably exogenous exclusion restriction. While standard OLS estimates suggest that if a mother has more bargaining power, her children will have a better nutritional status, our IV estimates indicate that the true impact is underestimated if the endogeneity of bargaining power is not taken into account.

Keywords: woman’s bargaining power; child nutrition; instrumental variable; Senegal; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.12.018

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