PHW251B Assignment 4

Reproducibility Report: Project Progress Check 3 (Pilot C)

Student project work

Informe de Estadística Descriptiva de la Variable Cuantitativa Mine Exper

math 105

Olivia Ogutu

This analysis looks at how women’s empowerment and access to care shape the health of mothers and children in some of India’s most vulnerable states, using NFHS-5 data. Focusing on nine high-burden states and UTs, it traces a simple but powerful story: when women are educated and marry later, they are more likely to use health services, give birth in institutions, and ensure follow-up care for themselves and their children. These steps, taken together, are strongly linked to better nutrition outcomes—especially lower stunting and wasting among children. Rather than treating health indicators in isolation, the study shows how they move together as part of a “care cascade,” from literacy and delayed marriage to antenatal care, safe births, and postnatal support. In contexts where poverty, migration, and social norms compound disadvantage, these relationships appear even sharper. The findings underline a human truth behind the statistics: empowering women is not just a social goal, but a practical pathway to healthier children and more equitable development in India’s most challenged regions.

Assignment 4

econ project