Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa
Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means for wo...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/154211516215200599/Marital-shocks-and-womens-welfare-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29216 |
| Summary: | Marital shocks are exceedingly common
for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates
whether women who have suffered a marital rupture experience
lower welfare levels relative to married women in their
first union. Conditional means for women's nutritional
status are compared by marital status across 20 countries.
Overall, the results indicate significantly lower
nutritional status for Africa's widows and divorcees
between ages 15 and 49. With some exceptions, this is found
to be the case with country and household fixed effects and
controls for HIV status. However, looking at
country-specific associations underlines that disadvantage
is by no means universal. |
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