ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relevance of women's agency in the context of an agricultural setting. The first section gives an overview of the literature. The subsequent sections provide the preliminary data analysis and the results and their interpretation, and the last section summarises the findings of the study. It also compares the linkages between women's labour force participation and women's education with child underweight, with reference to women's agency role at the district level as well as rural parts of the district, given the district-level enabling aspects such as agricultural performance, hygiene and health. The other factors that influence child underweight rates across districts are important to understand the impact of women's agency in the form of work participation rates. The chapter also presents an analysis to estimate regression models each based on various quantiles or percentage point of the distribution of child underweight rates and referred to as quantile regression model.
