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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
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  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
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Leight, Jessica; Pedehombga, Abdoulaye; Ganaba, Rasmané; and Gelli, Aulo. 2022. Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso. SSM - Mental Health 2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100160

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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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