Elizabeth Frankenberg

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.