Abstract

• Women’s autonomy and empowerment has generally been recognized as one of most important factors of development. A lack of autonomy and empowerment may lead to negative outcomes on child health and mortality. This study tried to investigate the effect of women’s empowerment on infant mortality in Myanmar. Sample of 4815 ever married women whose age are 15 to 49 years were drawn from 2015/16 Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey. Furthermore, the binary logistic model had been specified and estimated to investigate the effect of women’s empowerment on infant mortality. Results showed that women who were more empowered were significantly less likely to experience infant mortality. This highlights the importance of women’s empowerment in efforts to reduce infant mortality.