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The Effect of Women’s Bargaining Power on Child Nutrition in Rural Senegal

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  • Lépine, Aurélia
  • Strobl, Eric

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We examine how women’s bargaining power affects child nutritional status using data from rural Senegal. In order to correct for the potential endogeneity of women’s bargaining power we use information on a mother’s ethnicity relative to that of the community she resides in order to construct an arguably exogenous exclusion restriction. While standard OLS estimates suggest that if a mother has more bargaining power, her children will have a better nutritional status, our IV estimates indicate that the true impact is underestimated if the endogeneity of bargaining power is not taken into account.

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  • Lépine, Aurélia & Strobl, Eric, 2013. "The Effect of Women’s Bargaining Power on Child Nutrition in Rural Senegal," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 17-30.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:45:y:2013:i:c:p:17-30
    DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.12.018
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