Gender-biased contexts may impact women’s lives across a variety of domains. This study examined whether changes in district prevalence of a salient gendered practice – dowry – are associated with changes in poor health for women in India. Two waves of national multilevel panel data were used to assess the relationship between changes in district-level dowry prevalence and changes in self-rated health for 23,785 ever-married women aged 15–50 years. Increased dowry prevalence was found to be associated with increased poor self-rated health for women. This relationship remained when controlling for potentially confounding factors including household socioeconomic status, caste, infrastructure, mobility and state fixed-effects.

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印度的性别背景、嫁妆和妇女健康：全国多层次纵向分析


性别偏见的环境可能会影响女性在各个领域的生活。这项研究调查了地区流行的显着性别习俗（嫁妆）的变化是否与印度妇女健康状况不佳的变化有关。使用两波全国多级面板数据来评估 23,785 名 15-50 岁已婚女性的区级嫁妆流行率变化与自我评价健康变化之间的关系。人们发现，嫁妆普及率的增加与女性自我评价健康状况不佳的增加有关。在控制了家庭社会经济地位、种姓、基础设施、流动性和国家固定效应等潜在混杂因素后，这种关系仍然存在。