Impact of mother’s employment on children’s nutrition: evidence from Nepal Khushbu Mishra, Stetson University, Deland, FL, kmishra@stetson.edu Olga Kondratjeva, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Abdoul G. Sam, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Abstract High prevalence of undernutrition in children leads to detrimental impacts of lower educational attainment and reduced lifetime earnings, trapping many generations into poverty. Therefore, addressing the factors that can impact child nutrition is an important issue. In this regard, using a national level dataset from Nepal, we investigate if maternal employment boosts child nutrition, measured by underweight (weight-for-age), stunting (height-for-age), and wasting (weight-for-height) for children under the age of five. Using coarsened exact matching and instrumental variable approach, our results indicate that maternal employment has no statistically significant impact on children’s nutrition. These findings lay in the middle of the spectrum in the literature where the majority of research find a positive impact and some find negative impact. Key words: child nutrition, maternal health, Nepal, South Asia, developing country