Open Conference Systems, 50th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society

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Women’s empowerment and child mortality: the case of Bangladesh
Chiara Puglisi

Last modified: 2018-05-16

Abstract


Bangladesh is the Southern Asian country that has been experiencing the highest absolute decline in the Under Five Mortality Rate in the past 15 years. This paper focuses on the importance of women’s education and empowerment variables in explaining this extraordinary result. We use a two-level multilevel logistic regression to take into account the great differences among territorial communities in terms of child mortality reduction. It emerges that the importance of woman’s empowerment - measured as individual and as mother - remains relevant even when the context is considered. A sensitivity analysis has been conducted to test the relevance of different indicators of female empowerment.


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