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Domestic Violence, Intrahousehold Bargaining and Child Health Development in Ghana

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I explore a unique exogenous instrument to examine how the intra-familial position of women influence health outcomes of their children using micro data from Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 2008. Using the 2 SLS-IV estimation technique, I build a model of household bargaining and child health development with perceptions of women regarding wife-beating and marital rape in the existence of domestic violence laws, in Ghana. Even though the initial OLS estimates suggest that women’s participation in decisions regarding purchases of household consumption goods help to improve child health outcomes, the IV estimates reveal that the presence of endogeneity underestimates the impact of women’s bargaining power on child health outcomes. Our Hausman test for endogeneity also confirms that health development of children is mediated through domestic violence laws, which protect women from physical and sexual abuse in the household.

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  • Nuhu, Ahmed Salim, 2015. "Domestic Violence, Intrahousehold Bargaining and Child Health Development in Ghana," EconStor Preprints 125776, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
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    Keywords

    Intrahousehold Bargaining; Domestic Violence; Child Health Investment; Child BMI;
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    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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