 Does Greater Autonomy among Women Provide the Key to Better Child Nutrition?Wiji Arulampalam, Anjor Bhaskar and Nisha Srivastava Working Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: The paper examine the link between a mother’s autonomy – the freedom and ability to think, express, act and make decisions independently – and the nutritional status of her children. There is a design a novel statistical framework that accounts for cultural and traditional environment, to create a measure of maternal autonomy, a concept that has rarely been examined previously as a factor in children’s nutritional outcomes. Using data from the Third Round of the National Family Health Survey for India, supplemented with our qualitative survey, and accounting for “son preference†by limiting analysis to first-born children under 18 months of age, we document that maternal autonomy has a positive impact on the long-term nutritional status of rural children. Keywords: child nutrition; maternal autonomy; latent factor models; empirical Bayes; India; National Family Health Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:10556 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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