Empoderamiento materno: ¿un índice para comprender la desnutrición infantil en Bolivia?

Lucila Aguilar Corrales

doi:10.35319/lajed.20223844

Authors

Lucila Aguilar Corrales Universidad Mayor de San Andrés https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1249-6851

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35319/lajed.20223844

Keywords:

Maternal empowerment, child malnutrition, principal component analysis, factor analysis

Abstract

The document presents the construction of a maternal empowerment index based on a factor analysis using the principal components method. Secondly, it is analyzed whether the index has a link with child malnutrition in children under 5 years old in Bolivia, for which anthropometric indicators are used as independent variables: height for age, weight for age and weight for height, as well as malnutrition due to anemia. In order to measure the correlation between the empowerment index and the different dependent variables, logit and probit models are used to give reliability to the estimates presented. The results show that there is an inverse association between this index and the indicator of long-term child malnutrition: height for age. The results differ according to the area and region of residence, in rural areas and in the highlands and the plains the influence of the index is greater, but it does not seem to have any influence in the valleys. Therefore, the study suggests that in order to reduce the levels of child malnutrition, it may be necessary to promote the different components of the index, such as: completion of high school and continuous access to information, highlighting violence as an event that should not be allowed, encourage future mothers to take part in both household and personal decisions and support women for their insertion in the labor market.

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Author Biography

Lucila Aguilar Corrales, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés

Licenciada en Economía. Desempeña funciones como Coordinadora Técnica en la Unidad de Microdatos y Encuestas de Fundación ARU. Realizó consultorías referentes a temas de agricultura, genero y pobreza multidimensional con instituciones como SWISSCONTACT, PNUD y FAO. Sus principales áreas de interés son: pobreza y desigualdad, evaluación de impacto, diseño de encuestas y de muestras complejas, análisis espacial, género.

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