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Contemporaneous Household Economic Well-being Response to Preschool Children Health Status in Cameroon
Botswana Journal of Economics
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Contemporaneous Household Economic Well-being Response to Preschool Children Health Status in Cameroon
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| Creator |
Baye, FM
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Child health
Economic well-being Household survey data Cameroon |
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| Description |
This paper estimates the contemporaneous response of household economic well-being to child health status and examines gender disparities in the response process, while controlling for other correlates. The paper uses the 2001 Cameroon household consumption survey and a range of survey-based regressions to generate results. Child health (weight-given age) correlates positively and significantly with household economic well-being, surrogated by log of household total expenditures per adult. This suggests evidence of spill-over effects of child health on household production. The effect of child health on well-being in households headed by women is more than that of their male counterparts. This indicates that with better child health, female heads are likely to exploit the resulting extra-time, budgetary savings and peace of mind at work to increase household well-being more effectively than their male counterparts. These results have implications for public interventions that promote child-day-care/pre-nursery school centres as an important enabler for women to use the extra-time at their disposal to participate additionally in labour market/training opportunities. Investing in reproductive health, especially child health, given the right conditions, can engender income growth, reduce poverty and initiate the process of accumulation of human capabilities. Keywords: Child health, Economic well-being, Household survey data, Cameroon |
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The Botswana Economics Association
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2011-03-08
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://www.ajol.info/index.php/boje/article/view/64202
10.4314/boje.v7i11.64202 |
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Botswana Journal of Economics; Vol. 7 No. 11 (2010); 32-48
1810-0163 1810-0163 |
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eng
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https://www.ajol.info/index.php/boje/article/view/64202/51997
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