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Measuring Women's Empowerment in Collective Households

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  • Rossella Calvi
  • Jacob Penglase
  • Denni Tommasi

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Measuring women's empowerment within families is challenging. Social scientists often rely on close-ended survey questions on women's participation in household decisions, domestic abuse, and autonomy to measure women's power and agency. Recent advances in family economics have allowed researchers to identify and estimate structural measures of women's power and resource control based on the collective household model. We provide a brief overview of this literature. We then apply machine learning techniques to answer the following questions: How do such measures compare to women's responses to close-ended survey questions? Which survey questions are most predictive of model-based estimates of women's empowerment?

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  • Rossella Calvi & Jacob Penglase & Denni Tommasi, 2022. "Measuring Women's Empowerment in Collective Households," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 112, pages 556-560, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:112:y:2022:p:556-60
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20221054
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    JEL classification:

    • C45 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Neural Networks and Related Topics
    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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