Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen
Despite wide use of women’s decisionmaking indicators, both as a direct measure of intrahousehold decisionmaking and as a proxy for women’s empowerment or bargaining power, little has been done to explore what such indicators capture and how effective they measure program impacts on empowerment. We...
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| author | Peterman, Amber Schwab, Benjamin Roy, Shalini Hidrobo, Melissa Gilligan, Daniel O. |
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| description | Despite wide use of women’s decisionmaking indicators, both as a direct measure of intrahousehold decisionmaking and as a proxy for women’s empowerment or bargaining power, little has been done to explore what such indicators capture and how effective they measure program impacts on empowerment. We review theoretical and operational evidence from recent literature on women’s decisionmaking and analyze survey experiments undertaken in cash and food transfer programs in Ecuador, Yemen, and Uganda from 2010 to 2012. We find large variations in how women are ranked in terms of decisionmaking depending on how indicators are constructed. In addition, we find that across countries, composite decisionmaking indicators are not consistently associated with other proxy measures of women’s empowerment or household welfare, such as women’s education levels or household food consumption. We also find mixed evidence across countries related to the impact of transfer programs on women’s decisionmaking indicators. We conclude with implications of our findings for future research and use of decisionmaking indicators for program evaluation in developing countries. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1498442025-11-06T07:24:39Z Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen Peterman, Amber Schwab, Benjamin Roy, Shalini Hidrobo, Melissa Gilligan, Daniel O. gender women's empowerment households cash transfer empowerment decision making cash transfers food consumption women Despite wide use of women’s decisionmaking indicators, both as a direct measure of intrahousehold decisionmaking and as a proxy for women’s empowerment or bargaining power, little has been done to explore what such indicators capture and how effective they measure program impacts on empowerment. We review theoretical and operational evidence from recent literature on women’s decisionmaking and analyze survey experiments undertaken in cash and food transfer programs in Ecuador, Yemen, and Uganda from 2010 to 2012. We find large variations in how women are ranked in terms of decisionmaking depending on how indicators are constructed. In addition, we find that across countries, composite decisionmaking indicators are not consistently associated with other proxy measures of women’s empowerment or household welfare, such as women’s education levels or household food consumption. We also find mixed evidence across countries related to the impact of transfer programs on women’s decisionmaking indicators. We conclude with implications of our findings for future research and use of decisionmaking indicators for program evaluation in developing countries. 2015-08-07 2024-08-01T02:50:04Z 2024-08-01T02:50:04Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149844 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151453 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149441 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149834 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150076 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Peterman, Amber; Schwab, Benjamin; Roy, Shalini; Hidrobo, Melissa; and Gilligan, Daniel. 2015. Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1453. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149844 |
| spellingShingle | gender women's empowerment households cash transfer empowerment decision making cash transfers food consumption women Peterman, Amber Schwab, Benjamin Roy, Shalini Hidrobo, Melissa Gilligan, Daniel O. Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen |
| title | Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen |
| title_full | Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen |
| title_fullStr | Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen |
| title_short | Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen |
| title_sort | measuring women s decisionmaking indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in ecuador uganda and yemen |
| topic | gender women's empowerment households cash transfer empowerment decision making cash transfers food consumption women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149844 |
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