Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213100 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/211
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
In developing countries, women’s decisions concerning their children’s health depend on ‘empowerment’ concerning decision-making, husband/partner’s use of violence, woman’s attitude towards this violence, available information, and resources. We derive an empowerment indicator using the ‘fuzzy sets’ and Alkire and Foster approaches to multidimensional 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 opposes her partner’s violence, the higher her education and body mass index, among female children, and in urban areas.
Subjects: 
Alkire and Foster
Demographic and Health Survey
fuzzy approach to poverty measurement
health
Mozambique
women's empowerment
JEL: 
D13
J16
O55
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-437-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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