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

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 i...

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Main Authors: Leight, Jessica, Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Ganaba, Rasmané, Gelli, Aulo
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2022
Subjects:
stress
women's empowerment
data
gender
mental health
post-partum depression
households
empowerment
maternal behavior
wellbeing
women
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141363
Summary: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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