The Importance of Women's Status for Child Nutrition in Developing Countries

By Lisa C. Smith, U. Ramakrishnan, A. Ndiaye, L. Haddad, R. Martorell. 2003

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Access, adoption, and diffusion: understanding the long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh (2011, background): “Using nearest-neighbour matching to construct a statistical comparison group, the authors find that long-term impacts differ across agricultural technology interventions and across outcomes.”
Reducing Child Undernutrition: Past Drivers and Priorities for the Post-MDG Era (2014, background): “…test, though at the 5% level for a one-tailed test), because the size of the coeﬃcient is so large and the ﬁnding is consistent with previous empirical work (see Smith et al ., 2003 and studies cited therein), we consider the estimate to be practically important from a policy perspective.”
Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “When women have more influence in their families’ economic decisions, their children are better fed (Smith et al., 2003) and their families allocate more of their income to food (Doss, 2006; Thomas, 1997, and; Hoddinott and Haddad, 1995), to health (Thomas, 1997), to education (Doss, 2006;…”
The gender implications of large-scale land deals: (2011, unknown): “Klausen (2002) compares gender inequality in education in a cross-country dataset and finds not only that gender inequality in education is persistent across many contexts but also that these inequalities directly affect economic growth by lowering levels of human capital: differences in gender gaps”
Determinants of Dietary Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh (2011, background): “A number of studies conducted across the world have documented the importance of women’s education in improving nutritional status, especially of women and children (Smith and Haddad 2000; Smith et al. 2003).”
Livestock and Women’s Livelihoods (2014, background): “Interventions that increase women’s access to, and control over, assets have been shown to improve household food security and child nutrition and education as well as the wellbeing of women themselves (World Bank 2001; Quisumbing 2003; Smith et al. 2003).”
What do we really know? Metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition (2011, background): “In fact, a vast literature has emerged as a result of the wide availability of these data sets (e.g., Smith et al. 2003; Foraita et al., 2008; Kandala et al., 2009).”
Linking small-scale fisheries and aquaculture to household nutritional security: an overview (2010, background): “In the gender and development literature, the role and economic status of women have long been identified as key determinants of the food security and nutritional status of households (Quisumbing et al. 1995; Smith et al. 2003 ).”
The world's most deprived: Characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger (2007, unknown): “South Asia has particularly high rates of underweight women and low birth-weight babies (Smith et al. 2003, UNS SCN 2004).”
Determinants of rural household dietary diversity: The case of Amatole and Nyandeni districts, South Africa (2013, background): “Similar comparable findings were suggested by several authors who noted that educated women assign a significantly larger proportion of their household food budget to food groups that are nutritionally rich in micronutrients (Smith and Haddad, 2000; Smith et al., 2003; Block, 2003), mainly because o”
The food security system: A new conceptual framework (2012, background): “In addition, since mothers are typically entrusted both to feed their children and to prepare the meal for all other household members, the physical, mental, educational, and social status of women and girls are most critical for the nutrition situation in families and populations and therewith for ”
Nile perch and the hungry of Lake Victoria: Gender, status and food in an East African fishery (2008, background): “Improving the status of women vis-à-vis men is likely to improve the nutrition of children (Smith et al., 2003).”
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (2013, unknown): “Studies on child nutritional status (Smith et al. 2003) and child schooling (Quisumbing and Maluccio 2003) use indicators of differences in age, education, and assets at marriage between the husband and wife within the same household as indicators of intrahousehold bargaining.”