Does greater autonomy among women provide the key to better child nutrition?
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- Wiji Arulampalam & Anjor Bhaskar & Nisha Srivastava, 2016. "Does Greater Autonomy among Women Provide the Key to Better Child Nutrition?," Working Papers id:10556, eSocialSciences.
- Arulampalam, Wiji & Bhaskar, Anjor & Srivastava, Nisha, 2016. "Does Greater Autonomy among Women Provide the Key to Better Child Nutrition?," IZA Discussion Papers 9781, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Arulampalam, Wiji & Bhaskar, Anjor & Srivastava, Nisha, 2016. "Does greater autonomy among women provide the key to better child nutrition?," Economic Research Papers 269577, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
- Arulampalam, Wiji, 2016. "Does greater autonomy among women provide the key to better child nutrition?," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1117, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
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Child Nutrition; Maternal Autonomy; Latent Factor Models; Empirical Bayes; India; National Family Health Survey. JEL Classification: C38; I14; I18;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C38 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Classification Methdos; Cluster Analysis; Principal Components; Factor Analysis
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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