covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …

of Social Exclusion in Tanzania -- Chapter 6: On Women's Empowerment and Children's Health: The Case of Ghana -- Chapter … three main topics: studies in the measurement and analysis of well-being and vulnerability to poverty, women's empowerment …Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Measurement and Analysis of Poverty in Rwanda -- Chapter 3: Measurement and …

In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We … apply the 'MIMIC' approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …

health indicators such as health status of women during pregnancy, nutritional status of women and children and other general … indicators of child health which directly or indirectly reflect the health status of women and children. Analysis has been done … indicated that huge health disparities in the health status of the women and children belonging to SCs, STs and OBCs do exist …

children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …. Therefore, policies that empower women can have additional positive spillovers for children's human capital. …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the …