Jurnal Ekonomi Kependudukan dan Keluarga
Vol. 1, No. 2

Maternal Decision Making and Children’s Nutritional Status: Evidence from Indonesia

Roswita, Nadia (Unknown)
Dartanto, Teguh (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jul 2024

Abstract

Indonesia is encountering consecutive health problems caused by malnutrition. The latter poses long-term effects on children’s development. As this issue continue its prominence, using linear regression and binary logistic with time lag to analyze data from Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) in 2007 and 2014 shall support the analysis of issue. Previous results from the models indicated that maternal decision-making in their share of food expenditure has a weak correlation for stunted children's experience. However, this study revealed different results. It suggested that involvement in from men in nutritional knowledge, skills, and financial backing to advance women's roles contributes to better children's nutritional outcomes. This study proved urgency to reassess and address the role of women in household decision-making to tackle issues of malnutrition in Indonesia.

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Journal Info

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publication:jekk

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Subject

Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Public Health Social Sciences

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Jurnal Ekonomi Kependudukan dan Keluarga (Journal of Population Economic and Family) or JEKK, is published by the Demographic Institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia (LD FEB UI). This open-access journal is published twice a year, in January and July. All papers ...