Cash Transfers (empowerment and nutrition)

The chart shows some puzzling results. It is from this paper by Mara van den Bold, Agnes R. Quisumbing, & Stuart Gillespie.

Women’s Bargaining Power and Child Nutrition (Senegal)

While standard OLS estimates suggest that if a mother has more bargaining power, her children will have a better nutritional status, our IV estimates indicate that the true impact is underestimated if the endogeneity of bargaining power is not taken into account.

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