research contributes to the inequality debate in the women's nutrition and inclusive growth literature from the CSR perspective … (GMoU) on improving female status by improving nutrition in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This paper adopts a survey …-sectional, describing and interpreting the current situation. A total of 768 women respondents were sampled across the rural areas of the …

Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have … suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means … for women's nutritional status are compared by marital status across 20 countries. Overall, the results indicate …

postpartum abstinence as a means to protect child health, while aligning with anthropological evidence documenting its adoption …

how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …