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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 20.
Published in final edited form as: World Dev. 2007 Nov;35(11):1975–1988. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.12.005

Table 1.

Percentage of women having the final say on household decisions and percentage of children who are severely underweight by women’s land ownership.

Has final say on
at least one
decision alone
or jointly
%
Has final say on
all four
decisions alone
or jointly
%
Has final say
alone
%
Child is
severely
underweight
%
Lives in landed household 47.9 12.1 20.2 13.7
Owns land herself 69.5 23.1 36.6 8.1
Lives in landless household 59.7 15.4 29.9 14.2

Total 52.3 13.8 23.7 13.5