Maternal and paternal employment in agriculture and early childhood development: a cross-sectional analysis of demographic and health survey data

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    In some contexts, maternal agricultural and manual employment are associated with poor child nutritional outcomes, whereas in others, maternal non-agricultural employment is associated with poor child nutritional outcomes. Evidence suggests that women`s non-agricultural employment is associated with greater women`s empowerment relative to agricultural employment, likely because non-agricultural employment allows women to learn non-farm skills and exposes them to knowledge and information which can improve their household decision-making. Compared to non-agricultural employment, the authors hypothesised that parental agricultural employment is associated with: 1. poorer child development (with . . .

     

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