Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298201 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/23/008
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of child fostering on health nutritional outcomes of under-five children in host households in Cameroon. The data used comes from the recent Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey (DHS-V, 2018). Three anthropometric measures of health and nutritional status are retained: stunting, underweight and wasting. The estimation of a recursive bivariate probit model correcting the endogeneity bias of child fostering shows that fostering improves the health nutritional outcomes of children respectively by 1.14% for the risk of stunting, by 1.97 % for the risk of underweight and 1.28% for the risk of wasting. These results are mainly explained by a better investment in human capital by the parents of the host families. Moreover, robustness analyses show that the participation of women in the labor market in host households is an important transmission channel through which child fostering improves the nutritional health of children. This evidence reinforces the interest of women's empowerment policies to guarantee the improvement of the nutritional health of children, since these are two related sustainable development goals.
Subjects: 
Child fostering
nutritional health
under-five children
recursive bivariate probit
Cameroon
JEL: 
I1
D1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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