The role of agriculture in women's nutrition: Empirical evidence from India.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we establish a statistically important relationship between household agricultural income and women's BMI using a five-year panel dataset of rural households drawn from 18 villages across five Indian states. Using within household variation over time, we estimate both the extent to which short-term changes in agricultural income are associated with short-term changes in BMI, and the effect of agricultural income growth on BMI growth over a longer term. Over the longer term, and for the group of households that regularly farm, we find a 10 percentage point agricultural income growth to be associated with a 0.10 percentage point growth in BMI. Consistent with the literature, this effect is economically modest, but important considering that we do not find a corresponding effec

SUBMITTER: Rao T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6093637 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature