A Simplified measure of nutritional empowerment using machine learning to abbreviate the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI)
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- Saha, Shree & Narayanan, Sudha, 2022. "A simplified measure of nutritional empowerment: Using machine learning to abbreviate the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI)," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).
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- Shree Saha & Sudha Narayanan, 2020. "A Simplified measure of nutritional empowerment using machine learning to abbreviate the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI)," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2020-031, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
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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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