abstract: 'It is widely recognized that women in developing countries have dual

  roles as generators of household income and as primary caregivers to

  their children. Many policies directed at reducing poverty or

  malnutrition involve one or the other of these roles. Programs to reduce

  child malnutrition, for example, typically target mothers as caregivers.

  However, because of the time constraints women face, there are potential

  conflicts between women''s different activities about which policy makers

  are rarely informed. Nutrition interventions have not usually considered

  the barriers to participation in such programs facing mothers who,

  either by choice or necessity, have entered the labour force (Leslie,

  1988; Engle, 1994). Similarly, policies directed at improving female

  employment opportunities typically ignore women''s important role in

  household activities related to children''s healthy development.

  In this paper we address a potentially important implication of women''s

  multiple roles and the time constraints they face: that female labour

  force participation, by reducing the time available for household

  activities related to child development, may glace young children at

  nutritional risk.'
affiliation: 'Glick, P (Corresponding Author), Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.

  Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.'
author: Glick, P and Sahn, DE
author_list:
- family: Glick
  given: P
- family: Sahn
  given: DE
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/1468-0084.00103
eissn: 1468-0084
files: []
issn: 0305-9049
journal: OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
keywords-plus: HOUSEHOLD; EMPLOYMENT; MODELS; HEALTH; GENDER; BIAS; WORK
language: English
month: AUG
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '33'
pages: 325-355
papis_id: c74fcca9b73fbd537579a0a8150279d8
ref: Glick1998maternallabour
times-cited: '40'
title: Maternal labour supply and child nutrition in West Africa
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000075597400003
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '60'
web-of-science-categories: 'Economics; Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods; Statistics
  \&

  Probability'
year: '1998'