How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea
How do perceptions of one’s relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women’s economic participation and involvement in decision-making? We conducted a 2018 survey experiment with female and male adults in approximately 1,000 households in Papua New Guinea. Employing an...
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| author | Kosec, Katrina Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung Schmidt, Emily Song, Jie |
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| description | How do perceptions of one’s relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women’s economic participation and involvement in decision-making? We conducted a 2018 survey experiment with female and male adults in approximately 1,000 households in Papua New Guinea. Employing an established survey treatment to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their relative economic well-being, we find that increased feelings of relative poverty make both men and women significantly more likely to support girls’ schooling and women’s paid employment, suggesting that relative economic insecurity can prompt support for women’s economic participation. However, increased feelings of relative poverty may trigger greater intra-household tension. While increased perceptions of relative poverty cause women to want more household decision-making authority, men’s attitudes toward women’s roles in decision-making are unchanged. Results underscore the complicated nature of gender attitudes, and how support for women’s economic participation may rise without simultaneous increases in women’s agency in decision-making. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1471452025-11-06T05:47:03Z How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea Kosec, Katrina Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung Schmidt, Emily Song, Jie education gender gender equality attitudes women's participation empowerment growth workforce poverty equality women How do perceptions of one’s relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women’s economic participation and involvement in decision-making? We conducted a 2018 survey experiment with female and male adults in approximately 1,000 households in Papua New Guinea. Employing an established survey treatment to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their relative economic well-being, we find that increased feelings of relative poverty make both men and women significantly more likely to support girls’ schooling and women’s paid employment, suggesting that relative economic insecurity can prompt support for women’s economic participation. However, increased feelings of relative poverty may trigger greater intra-household tension. While increased perceptions of relative poverty cause women to want more household decision-making authority, men’s attitudes toward women’s roles in decision-making are unchanged. Results underscore the complicated nature of gender attitudes, and how support for women’s economic participation may rise without simultaneous increases in women’s agency in decision-making. 2019-12-23 2024-06-21T09:11:34Z 2024-06-21T09:11:34Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147145 en https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/pakistan/2017-09-18/when-prosperity-leads-disaffection https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305541700017X https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105218 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148411 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153868 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133520 https://theconversation.com/feeling-relatively-poor-increases-support-for-women-in-the-workplace-but-men-still-dont-want-them-making-household-decisions-151540 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kosec, Katrina; Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung; Schmidt, Emily; and Song, Jie. 2019. How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1895. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147145 |
| spellingShingle | education gender gender equality attitudes women's participation empowerment growth workforce poverty equality women Kosec, Katrina Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung Schmidt, Emily Song, Jie How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea |
| title | How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea |
| title_full | How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea |
| title_fullStr | How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea |
| title_full_unstemmed | How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea |
| title_short | How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea |
| title_sort | how do perceptions of relative poverty affect women s empowerment evidence from papua new guinea |
| topic | education gender gender equality attitudes women's participation empowerment growth workforce poverty equality women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147145 |
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