Measuring maternal autonomy and its effect on child nutrition in rural India

IF 1.6 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Economica Pub Date : 2024-03-06 DOI:10.1111/ecca.12518
Wiji Arulampalam, Anjor Bhaskar, Nisha Srivastava
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This paper examines the link between a mother's autonomy—the freedom and ability to think, express, make decisions and act independently—and the nutritional status of her children. We treat ‘autonomy’ as a latent variable, and design a novel statistical framework to measure this. This method allows us to separate the direct associations of maternal and family characteristics in our model for nutrition, from their indirect associations that work through maternal autonomy. Using data from India, we explore the sensitivity of our estimates to endogeneity caused by sample selection in the presence of son preference. We find: (i) a one standard deviation (SD) higher autonomy score is associated with a 0.16 SD higher height-for-age z-score (HAZ score); and (ii) a 10% lower prevalence of stunting (HAZ < −2 SD). The latter is equivalent to the prevention of approximately 300,000 children stunting, indicating the important role of maternal autonomy.

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衡量印度农村地区产妇自主权及其对儿童营养的影响
本文探讨了母亲的自主性(独立思考、表达、决策和行动的自由和能力)与子女营养状况之间的联系。我们将 "自主性 "视为一个潜在变量,并设计了一个新颖的统计框架来测量这一变量。通过这种方法,我们可以将营养模型中母亲和家庭特征的直接关联与通过母亲自主性发挥作用的间接关联区分开来。利用印度的数据,我们探讨了在存在儿子偏好的情况下,我们的估计值对样本选择引起的内生性的敏感性。我们发现(i) 高一个标准差(SD)的自主性得分与高 0.16 个标准差的身高-年龄 z 分数(HAZ 分数)相关;以及 (ii) 发育迟缓发生率降低 10%(HAZ < -2 SD)。后者相当于防止约 30 万儿童发育迟缓,表明了母亲自主的重要作用。
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Economica
Economica ECONOMICS-
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期刊介绍: Economica is an international journal devoted to research in all branches of economics. Theoretical and empirical articles are welcome from all parts of the international research community. Economica is a leading economics journal, appearing high in the published citation rankings. In addition to the main papers which make up each issue, there is an extensive review section, covering a wide range of recently published titles at all levels.
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