Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa

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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Main Authors: Djuikom, Marie Albertine, van de Walle, Dominique
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
WELFARE
NUTRITION
GENDER
MARITAL DISSOLUTION
WIDOWS
DIVORCEES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/154211516215200599/Marital-shocks-and-womens-welfare-in-Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29216
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spelling okr-10986-292162021-06-08T14:42:48Z Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa Djuikom, Marie Albertine van de Walle, Dominique WELFARE NUTRITION GENDER MARITAL DISSOLUTION WIDOWS DIVORCEES 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. 2018-01-23T16:43:45Z 2018-01-23T16:43:45Z 2018-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/154211516215200599/Marital-shocks-and-womens-welfare-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29216 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8306 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic WELFARE
NUTRITION
GENDER
MARITAL DISSOLUTION
WIDOWS
DIVORCEES
spellingShingle WELFARE
NUTRITION
GENDER
MARITAL DISSOLUTION
WIDOWS
DIVORCEES
Djuikom, Marie Albertine
van de Walle, Dominique
Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa
geographic_facet Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8306
description 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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author Djuikom, Marie Albertine
van de Walle, Dominique
author_facet Djuikom, Marie Albertine
van de Walle, Dominique
author_sort Djuikom, Marie Albertine
title Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa
title_short Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa
title_full Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa
title_fullStr Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa
title_full_unstemmed Marital Shocks and Women's Welfare in Africa
title_sort marital shocks and women's welfare in africa
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/154211516215200599/Marital-shocks-and-womens-welfare-in-Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29216
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