A Simplified measure of nutritional empowerment using machine learning to abbreviate the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI)
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Keywords
Empowerment; nutrition; machine learning; LASSO; gender; India; South Asia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General
- C55 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2021-02-15 (Big Data)
- NEP-DEV-2021-02-15 (Development)
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