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Women Empowerment and Child Health in Developing Countries (ICPSR 34379)
Principal Investigator(s): Duflo, Esther, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Summary: The goal of this project was to examine the effect of women's empowerment on child health in developing nations and to estimate how policies designed to improve women's access to education, earnings, and political participation affect child health. Specifically, the project had three aims: (1) to estimate the effect of increasing the education of women on their fertility and children's health; (2) to determine whether women's short term income fluctuations have a different ef... (more info)
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Study Description
Funding
This survey was funded by:
- United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Scope of Study
Summary: The goal of this project was to examine the effect of women's empowerment on child health in developing nations and to estimate how policies designed to improve women's access to education, earnings, and political participation affect child health. Specifically, the project had three aims: (1) to estimate the effect of increasing the education of women on their fertility and children's health; (2) to determine whether women's short term income fluctuations have a different effect on child health than men's short term income fluctuations; and (3) to estimate the effect of women's political participation on the provision of public goods conducive to child health.
Subject Terms: child health, developing nations, education, fertility, political participation, women, women in development
Geographic Coverage: Africa, Ghana, Global, Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa
Data Collection Notes:
These data are not available from DSDR or ICPSR. Researchers should consult the principal investigator directly for details on obtaining access to the data and documentation:
Dr. Esther Duflo
Department of Economics
MIT, E52-252G
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
email: eduflo@mit.edu