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Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso

author(s) Leight, Jessica - Pedehombga, Abdoulaye - Ganaba, Rasmané - Gelli, Aulo
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
citation

Leight, Jessica et al., 'Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso', SSM - Mental Health, vol. 2():100160, p. 100160, Elsevier BV, 2022

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Abstract

Objective: Though there is a wide array of evidence that women's empowerment is associated with more positive health and nutritional outcomes for women and children, evidence around the relationship with mental health or subjective well-being remains relatively limited. The objective of this paper is to explore this relationship in longitudinal data from rural Burkina Faso.
Methods: We analyze the association between empowerment measured using the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), and two additional outcomes of interest: stress (measured using the SRQ-20) and maternal depression (measured using the Edinburgh scale for post-partum depression). The analysis employs both cross-sectional specifications and panel specifications conditional on individual fixed effects.

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