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Elizabeth Frankenberg

Bio: Elizabeth Frankenberg is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Family life & Population. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 94 publications receiving 5207 citations. Previous affiliations of Elizabeth Frankenberg include RAND Corporation & University of California, Los Angeles.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether a woman's power relative to her husband's affects decisions about use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia and concluded that both economic and social dimensions of the distribution of power between spouses influence decision-making and that it is useful to conceptualize power as multi-dimensional in understanding the behavior of couples.
Abstract: This paper examines whether a woman's power relative to her husband's affects decisions about use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia. Measures of power that span economic and social domains are considered. Holding household resources constant, control over economic resources by a woman affects the couple’s decision-making. Relative to a woman with no assets that she perceives as being her own, a woman with some share of household assets influences reproductive health decisions. Evidence suggests these decisions also vary if a woman is better educated than her husband, comes from a higher social status background than her husband, or if her father is better educated than her father-in-law. We conclude that both economic and social dimensions of the distribution of power between spouses influence decision-making and that it is useful to conceptualize power as multi-dimensional in understanding the behavior of couples.

317 citations

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TL;DR: Both economic and social dimensions of the distribution of power between spouses influence use of services, and conceptualizing power as multidimensional is useful for understanding couples' behavior.
Abstract: Indonesian women's power relative to that of their husbands is examined to determine how it affects use of prenatal and delivery care Holding household resources constant, a woman's control over economic resources affects the couple's decision-making Compared with a woman with no assets that she perceives as being her own, a woman with some share of household assets influences reproductive health decisions Evidence suggests that her influence on service use also varies if a woman is better educated than her husband, comes from a background of higher social status than her husband's, or if her father is better educated than her father-in-law Therefore, both economic and social dimensions of the distribution of power between spouses influence use of services, and conceptualizing power as multidimensional is useful for understanding couples' behavior

316 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of the 1998 economic and financial crisis in Indonesia on education of the next generation and found that on average, household spending on education declined, most dramatically among the poorest households, while there was a tendency to protect education spending in poor households with more older children.

260 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the responses of individuals interviewed in the second half of 1997 to responses obtained through reinterviews with those same individuals in the latter half of 1998.
Abstract: Indonesia is at the center of dramatic political and economic upheaval. Projections put output in 1998 at 15% below its 1997 level and inflation at 75-80% for 1997. Riots and demonstrations flared in several Indonesian cities. After leading the country for more than a quarter of a century President Suharto resigned in May of 1998. Few Indonesians have remained untouched by these and other events of the last couple of years. The drought of 1997 the price shocks associated with the collapse of the rupiah and removal of subsidies and the income shocks arising from changes in demand combine to yield an extremely complex picture of substantial change throughout the society. The effects of the crisis on welfare of the population are nuanced and heterogeneous. They vary by region across socio-economic groups and across demographic groups. If policies are to succeed at mitigating the effects of the crisis the policies must be based on solid information about who has been affected how they have been affected and how they are changing their behaviors in response to the crisis. This study seeks to provide information on those topics. The results are based on data from the Indonesia family Life Survey (IFLS) an on-going longitudinal survey of individuals households and communities in Indonesia conducted by RAND in collaboration with UCLA and Lembaga Demografi. For the purpose of understanding how the economic crisis has affected welfare we compare the responses of individuals interviewed in the second half of 1997 to responses obtained through reinterviews with those same individuals in the second half of 1998. In the 1998 follow-up we succeeded at reinterviewing over 98% of the 1934 households from which data were collected in 1997. (excerpt)

233 citations

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TL;DR: A broadening of random assignment studies to measure the effects of an intervention on economic prosperity, investment in population-based longitudinal socioeconomic surveys, and application of emerging technologies for a better measure of health in these surveys will yield very high returns in improving the understanding of how health influences economic prosperity.
Abstract: A positive correlation between health and economic prosperity has been widely documented, but the extent to which this reflects a causal effect of health on economic outcomes is very controversial. Two classes of evidence are examined. First, carefully designed random assignment studies in the laboratory and field provide compelling evidence that nutritional deficiency - particularly iron deficiency - reduces work capacity and, in some cases, work output. Confidence in these results is bolstered by a good understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms. Some random assignment studies indicate an improved yield from health services in the labour market. Second, observational studies suggest that general markers of nutritional status, such as height and body mass index (BMI), are significant predictors of economic success although their interpretation is confounded by the fact that they reflect influences from early childhood and family background. Energy intake and possibly the quality of the diet have also been found to be predictive of economic success in observational studies. However, the identification of causal pathways in these studies is difficult and involves statistical assumptions about unobserved heterogeneity that are difficult to test. Illustrations using survey data demonstrate the practical importance of this concern. Furthermore, failure to take into account the dynamic interplay between changes in health and economic status has led to limited progress being reported in the literature. A broadening of random assignment studies to measure the effects of an intervention on economic prosperity, investment in population-based longitudinal socioeconomic surveys, and application of emerging technologies for a better measure of health in these surveys will yield very high returns in improving our understanding of how health influences economic prosperity.

201 citations


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TL;DR: It is concluded that multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys should be considered as a legitimate method for answering the question of why people do not respond to survey questions.
Abstract: 25. Multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys. By D. B. Rubin. ISBN 0 471 08705 X. Wiley, Chichester, 1987. 258 pp. £30.25.

3,216 citations

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TL;DR: Two factors with available worldwide data—the prevalence of early childhood stunting and the number of people living in absolute poverty—are identified as indicators of poor development and show that both indicators are closely associated with poor cognitive and educational performance in children.

2,942 citations

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02 Aug 2013-Science
TL;DR: The evidence supports the need for considerable investment in adaptation and mitigation actions toward a “climate-smart food system” that is more resilient to climate change influences on food security.
Abstract: Climate change could potentially interrupt progress toward a world without hunger. A robust and coherent global pattern is discernible of the impacts of climate change on crop productivity that could have consequences for food availability. The stability of whole food systems may be at risk under climate change because of short-term variability in supply. However, the potential impact is less clear at regional scales, but it is likely that climate variability and change will exacerbate food insecurity in areas currently vulnerable to hunger and undernutrition. Likewise, it can be anticipated that food access and utilization will be affected indirectly via collateral effects on household and individual incomes, and food utilization could be impaired by loss of access to drinking water and damage to health. The evidence supports the need for considerable investment in adaptation and mitigation actions toward a “climate-smart food system” that is more resilient to climate change influences on food security.

2,050 citations

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TL;DR: A model describing the health assessment process is proposed to show how self-rated health can reflect the states of the human body and mind and the focus is on the social and biological pathways that mediate information from the human organism to individual consciousness.

1,938 citations

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TL;DR: Children's and women's haemoglobin statuses improved in some regions where concentrations had been low in the 1990s, leading to a modest global increase in mean haemochemistry and a reduction in anaemia prevalence between 1995 and 2011.

1,335 citations