Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare
Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development. We propose and test a novel economic intervention that relies on intra-household transfers of productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar...
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| author | Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael |
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| description | Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development. We propose and test a novel economic intervention that relies on intra-household transfers of productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training) increases empowerment through agency and achievements, with no impact on access to resources. We use these interventions to test the widely held (but weakly supported) assumption that empowering women generates improvements in child welfare. We find that, contrary to studies examining extra-household transfers, these interventions do not shift food security, health, or educational outcomes. They do, however, improve life satisfaction both for women and their husbands. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1436302025-02-24T06:46:33Z Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael gender women's empowerment households welfare empowerment assets women Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development. We propose and test a novel economic intervention that relies on intra-household transfers of productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training) increases empowerment through agency and achievements, with no impact on access to resources. We use these interventions to test the widely held (but weakly supported) assumption that empowering women generates improvements in child welfare. We find that, contrary to studies examining extra-household transfers, these interventions do not shift food security, health, or educational outcomes. They do, however, improve life satisfaction both for women and their husbands. 2021-12-14 2024-05-22T12:15:40Z 2024-05-22T12:15:40Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143630 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105224 Open Access Institute of Labor Economics Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly M.; and O’Sullivan, Michael. 2021. Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare. IZA Discussion Paper No. 14861. https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/14861 |
| spellingShingle | gender women's empowerment households welfare empowerment assets women Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare |
| title | Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare |
| title_full | Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare |
| title_short | Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare |
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