Table 1.

Variable definitions.

Construct	Indicator	Indicator definition
Women's relative power	Women's asset share	Women's asset count/household asset count. Women's asset counts have values of 0, 0.5 or 1 (for none, joint or sole ownership). In households where households have zero assets, the share is 0.5. We only count large assets that would not have changed due to UPAVAN interventions, which were: agricultural land, nonagricultural land, house, large livestock, small livestock, mechanized farm equipment, nonmechanized farm equipment, business equipment, high‐cost durables, phone and jewellery.
	Women's education share	Women/(women + spouse) years of completed formal education. In households where men and women have no education, the share is 0.5.
	Women's decision‐making	The number of decisions woman is typically involved in, out of 7. For each decision, women have a score of 0, 0.5 or 1 (for none, some or all/most input). Decisions relate to food cropping, cash cropping, animal husbandry, nonfarm business, minor daily food expenditures, accessing markets and seeking health care.
Household cooperation	Household cooperation, indicated as men's care share	Men's care share = men/(men + women) hours spent on childcare in the previous 24 h. We measured men's childcare in a random selection of half the sample, and this excludes women‐only households and cases where the male respondent was not the husband.
Child diets	Child dietary diversity score	Count out of seven food groups. Food groups are grains; roots and tubers; legumes and nuts; dairy products; flesh foods; eggs; vitamin A‐rich fruits and vegetables and other fruits and vegetables) (WHO, 2010). Measured for children aged 6–23 months only.
Women's diets	Maternal dietary diversity score	Count out of 10 food groups. Food groups are: starchy staples; bean, peas and pulses; nuts and seeds; eggs; meat and fish; dairy; dark green leafy vegetables; other vitamin A‐rich fruits and vegetables, other fruits, other vegetables) (FAO, 2014).
Covariates	Household assets	Count out of 11 household assets.
	Total education	Total number of years of education, summed for father and mother.
	Caste	Three categories: Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and other castes including other backward castes.
	Household dependency ratio	Number of children/adults.
	Land size	Binary indicator (<2.5 vs. ≥2.5 ac).
	Maternal age	Age in years.
	Child age	Age in months.

Abbreviation: UPAVAN, Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition.