Électrification en Afrique subsaharienne : les effets sur la scolarisation des enfants et l’emploi des femmes

Tenezakis, Émile; Tritah, Ahmed

doi:10.3917/rfe.201.0183

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“…This increase in income is likely to increase their bargaining power within the household (Doss, 2013). These results confirm those of several authors who argue that access to economic infrastructures in general, and to electricity in particular, leads to a decrease in time spent on household chores (Dinkelman, 2011; Burlig and Preonas, 2016; Tenezakis and Tritah, 2020).…”

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Rural electrification and women's empowerment in Côte d’Ivoire

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Djezou

Tiberti

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis paper assesses the impact of this program on the rural women's employment opportunities using data from the 2015 round of the household's living standard survey (HLSS) of Côte d'Ivoire.Design/methodology/approachIn 2013, in order to improve the living conditions of the rural population, the Ivorian government launched the National Program for rural electrification (PRONER) to electrify all localities with more than 500 inhabitants.FindingsThe results show that PRONER, while reducing the time allocated to performing household chores, increases women's employment through the reallocation of time to full-time paid work in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. The authors also find that the allocation of men's time is not affected by this programme. A possible mechanism that would explain such a pro-women effect is the labour-saving technology introduced to home production as an effect of the reform.Research limitations/implicationsAs a limitation, it is important to note that these results were obtained in the specific context of PRONER in Côte d’Ivoire and are not necessarily applicable to rural electrification programmes in other contexts. Furthermore, the choice of other indicators to measure women's empowerment is limited by the quality of the data available. It would be interesting for future research to extend this analysis to include other aspects of women's empowerment and household welfare.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to the author’s knowledge to apply a robust econometric method by combining an inverse probability weighted regression adjustment model with Heckman sample selection method to access a robust causal effect of the PRONER in Côte d'Ivoire.

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