Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda
We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. We find that lower socioeconomic status and household gender norms both predict a couple’s refusal of the intervention. We also randomly assign couples to a workshop that aims...
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| author | Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael |
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| description | We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. We find that lower socioeconomic status and household gender norms both predict a couple’s refusal of the intervention. We also randomly assign couples to a workshop that aims to increase communication and gender balance in the household and find that couples invited to the workshop were less likely to refuse the subsequently offered empowerment intervention. Moreover, the workshop was effective at addressing sources of disadvantage that arise from household gender norms and division of labor, and less effective at addressing refusal rates associated with socioeconomic status. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1429392025-12-08T10:11:39Z Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael gender women's empowerment farmers sugar cane socioeconomic development empowerment marriage women We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. We find that lower socioeconomic status and household gender norms both predict a couple’s refusal of the intervention. We also randomly assign couples to a workshop that aims to increase communication and gender balance in the household and find that couples invited to the workshop were less likely to refuse the subsequently offered empowerment intervention. Moreover, the workshop was effective at addressing sources of disadvantage that arise from household gender norms and division of labor, and less effective at addressing refusal rates associated with socioeconomic status. 2021-02-01 2024-05-22T12:11:21Z 2024-05-22T12:11:21Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142939 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146963 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133511 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134200 https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/14861 Open Access Elsevier Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly M.; and O'Sullivan, Michael. 2021. Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda. World Development 138(February 2021): 105224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105224 |
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| title | Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda |
| title_full | Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda |
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| title_short | Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda |
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| topic | gender women's empowerment farmers sugar cane socioeconomic development empowerment marriage women |
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