Women's empowerment and prevalence of stunted and underweight children in rural India

World Development

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 88-105

  Imai, Katsushi S ^a   Annim, Samuel Kobina ^b   Kulkarni, Veena S ^c   Gaiha, Raghav ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

^c ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Child nutrition; Empowerment; India; NFHS; Quantile regressions

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; CHILD HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EMPOWERMENT; MOTHERS EDUCATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; RURAL SOCIETY;

INDIA;

EID: 84901612615     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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