How does Women’s Time in Reproductive Work and Agriculture Affect Maternal and Child Nutrition? Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal

Sophie Theis, Mala Pit, Hazel L and Hitomi Komatsu

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Abstract: This paper examines whether an increase in women’s time in agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to poorer nutrition. Using data from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal, we find that on the whole, in poor households, reductions in women’s reproductive work time are detrimental to nutrition, especially for children.

Keywords: agriculture; reproductive; empirical; reductions; detrimental; nutrition; illustrate; socioeconomic; context; adversely; women's time; Bangladesh; Cambodia; Ghana; Mozambique; and Nepal; children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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