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Effect of Years of Marriage on the Decision-Making Power of Women: A Study of India

In: The Finance-Innovation Nexus: Implications for Socio-Economic Development

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  • Sudatta Banerjee
  • Grahithaa Sarathy
  • Bincy George

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In India, women make up 48% of the population, but only around 20% of the labour force. Their empowerment could potentially play a key role in the country’s economic growth. At the household level, most of the decisions are taken by males and the attitude of females has been to accept it as a norm. This study measures changing levels of women’s empowerment in terms of decision-making capability at the household level at different stages of marriage in the context of India. Data from India’s National Family Health Survey is used to create indices based on freedom of movement, personal decisions, and household decisions. Then, these three indices are used to create a women empowerment index. Multiple regression analysis is used to find the relationship between decision-making and the number of years the respondent has been married, controlling for other factors. It is found that the number of years of marriage has a highly significant, positive relationship with the empowerment index, indicating gender differences may indeed be evolving in nature with respect to the number of years married. Additionally, through regressions on the indices that make up the empowerment index, the above relationship appears to be primarily driven by personal decision-making.

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  • Sudatta Banerjee & Grahithaa Sarathy & Bincy George, 2024. "Effect of Years of Marriage on the Decision-Making Power of Women: A Study of India," International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics, in: The Finance-Innovation Nexus: Implications for Socio-Economic Development, volume 34, pages 15-26, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:isetez:s1571-038620240000034002
    DOI: 10.1108/S1571-038620240000034002
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    Keywords

    Women empowerment; stage of marriage; age of women; decision-making; gender equality; C3; D1; J12; J16; O1; O12;
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    JEL classification:

    • C3 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables
    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • 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
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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