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202 - ERF W 4 P s - Women’s Work and Children’s Development Outcomes:

11 Sep 2024

Section VI concludes with a discussion of policy responses critical to the improvement of children’s development outcomes, particularly in light of the prospect of digitalization and decarbonization of Arab region economies. [...] Children’s height for age, weight for age, and weight for height can be analyzed across cohorts of children and across different ages and genders to gauge the acuteness and longer-term stability of children’s access to nutrition. [...] To delineate the various circumstance groups, we use mother’s and father’s employment status and education, household wealth, residence in urban/rural and economically privileged/ disadvantaged regions (typically governorates identified as high/low-income), sex of the household head, and sex of the child. [...] For wasting, having a working mother is associated with a higher z-score of weight for height and hence lower prevalence of wasting, and this is regardless of the exact occupation of the mother. [...] The results suggest that the positive effect of women’s employment and better-quality occupation is especially important for the development of daughters (relative to sons), but the effects differ by children’s age and living conditions in a complex way and should be studied more carefully.

Authors

Shireen AlAzzawi

Pages
31
Published in
Egypt

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