| Autor: |
Burroway, Rebekah, Shorette, Kristen |
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Sociology of Development; Winter2024, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p432-453, 22p |
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Improving women's employment prospects has long been a goal of development agencies worldwide. Despite persistent gender gaps in labor force participation, women's employment is heralded as a key mechanism for improving health and well-being. Yet, empirical evidence for the link between women's work and child health is mixed. We examine the relationship between work and health from a cross-national and distributional perspective. More specifically, we estimate the impact of female labor force participation on infant mortality rates across 148 countries from 1990 to 2016 using unconditional quantile regression analysis. This technique allows for the possibility that the relationship between work and health may vary with level of mortality. Indeed, we find that the benefits of women's labor force participation for child health are limited to the lowest end of the distribution, where infant mortality rates range from about 3.9 to 6.7 per 1,000 live births. In contrast, labor force participation seems to have a detrimental impact on infant mortality in some cases and no significant impact in many other cases. The results underscore previous cautions against taking a one-size-fits-all approach to development and suggest that promoting employment will not necessarily improve child health unless vulnerabilities in women's work are addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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