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    Land Ownership, Household bargaining Power and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from the NDHS
    (Department of Political Science, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2019-06-16) Atsiya, Pius Amos; Atsiya, Godiya Pius; Agbutun, Shedrack Adzugbele
    The Demand Side Financing option to eliminate financial barrier to uptake of child health interventions in developing countries can be analyse from the dimension of intrafamilial resource allocation within households. An understanding of the operation of domestic economy is potentially relevant in stimulating demand for child health. The role of women land ownership status in influencing household decision making and consequently child health-outcome was investigated in this study. The Noncooperative model, particularly the Separate sphere model was taken to a Nigerian Demographic Health Survey data. Specifically, the propensity score model was used to estimate the causal treatment effect of women land ownership status on the nutrition of children (stunting and wasting). We uncover a reduced probability (3%), on average, of a child becoming stunted if the mother owns land. The effect size was however reduced (0.7%) when a more robust treatment indicator-LandRight was used. The wasting model corroborates the stunting outcome but with improved and statistically significant treatment effect (2%) when the Land Right was controlled for. Our findings were robust to different propensity score methods such as the Nearest Neighbour Matching, Inverse Probability Weight, and Regression Adjustment among others. Taken together, this evidence is suggestive of a negative Average Treatment Effect (ATE) associated with mere land ownership among women in Nigeria. In effect, land ownership right is likely to reduce the probability of children becoming either stunted or wasted.