Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Burkina Faso

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2021-08
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Nikiema, P. Rita
Kponou, M. Kenneth C.
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Across developing countries, women play an important role both as producers of major food crops and in improving household nutrition. This research paper aims to assess the effect of improving women’s empowerment on the nutritional status of children in rural Burkina Faso. Based on data from the 2014 Multisectoral Continuous Survey (EMC), the paper uses variables such as income control, access to land, autonomy in production decisions, access to credit and social group membership to compute a composite index of women’s empowerment. Accounting for potential endogeneity of empowerment, the
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