Impact of demographic variables on women’s economic empowerment: An ordered probit model

Batool, Syeda Azra; Ahmed, Hafiz Khalil; Qureshi, Shazia

doi:10.1080/08952841.2016.1256734

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“…The current result is likely because women who are advanced in age may command some level of respect/recognition from sociocultural perspective. Azra Batool et al (2018) also espoused that advanced age benefits the entire family in addition to affecting women's lives positively. For instance, children of empowered women tend to receive better education.…”

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Mass Media Exposure and Women’s Household Decision-Making Capacity in 30 Sub-Saharan African Countries: Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys

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Background: Women's household decision-making capacity is an essential component of their empowerment which include decisions related to personal health care, large household purchase and family visitations. Despite research evidence acknowledging mass media's influences on women's empowerment, including their ability to take household decisions, empirical data through multi-country comparison on mass media exposure and women's decision making capacity are sparse. This study sought to assess the association between exposure to mass media (television, radio and newspaper/magazine) and women's household decision-making capacity in 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).Materials and Methods: Data from current Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in 30 countries in SSA from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2016 were used. Binary Logistic Regression analysis was used to assess the association between mass media exposure and women's household decision-making capacity in SSA. Results were presented using crude odds ratios (COR) and adjusted odds ratios (AOR).Results: Women who watched television almost every day had higher capacity to take household decisions, compared to those who did not watch television at all. Women who read newspaper/magazine less than once a week were less likely to take household decisions compared to those who never read newspaper/magazine. However, there was no association between exposure to radio and household decisionmaking capacity. Regarding the covariates, age, level of education, wealth index, occupation, and parity showed significant associations with women's household decision-making capacity.

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Mass Media Exposure and Women’s Household Decision-Making Capacity in 30 Sub-Saharan African Countries: Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys

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“…The increasing age of women who work as songket craftsmen has a strong enough influence on the decision to work on their own business or work in someone else's business. Batool & Jadoon (2018), Sheikh et al, (2016), and Batool et al, (2017 found the same thing where women's age had a positive and significant effect on women's empowerment. However, in contrast to the findings of Haque et al (2011), it is concluded that women's age does not have an influence on women's empowerment, especially in economic decision making and household decision-making.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Women in the 40-44 year age group showed the highest chance of making economic decisions 2.82 times compared to those in the reference age category. Batool et al (2017) and Sheikh et al(2016) state that women's age has a positive and significant effect on women's empowerment. The older you get, the better your understanding of a job will be, and you will get richer work experience.…”

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Women Attribute and Household Level Factor on Women's Empowerment

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Ridho

Jauhari

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<p>Empowerment is an important strategy in increasing the role and opportunities of women in improving their economy and is an effort to increase and actualize their potential so that they are more able to be independent and work, and are more appreciated. This study aims to analyze the probability of empowering women in the songket craft business, testing and analyzing the variable women attribute and household level factor on women's empowerment . Tests are carried out using binary logistic regression . The results showed that the variables of age, education, and work experience had a significant effect on women's empowerment. The policy implication of the results of this study is that there needs to be more serious attention and involvement from the government and other institutions in coaching women songket craftsmen, and improving the quality of women through various activities to empower them through songket business activities.</p>

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“…This statistical method is a relatively standard approach. For example, Azra Batool et al, (2018) used the same approach to explore the influence of demographic variables on economic empowerment.…”

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Time discounting and implications for Chinese farmer responses to an upward trend in precipitation

Balcombe

Robinson

2021

J Agricultural Economics

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This paper studies Chinese grape growers' time discounting and its implications for the adoption of technology that can reduce the negative effects of increasing precipitation. Using primary data collected in Xinjiang Province, we undertook a contingent valuation of rain covers that protect fruit from rain and estimated a discounted utility model using these data. Using a hierarchical Bayesian approach, we find that local grape growers discount the future very heavily, with a discount rate of 0.17 per year, which is almost four times higher than the Chinese market interest rate. Farmers also tend to underestimate the benefits of adopting covers, with their purchase decisions appearing to largely depend on their past actual losses rather than future anticipated losses. These findings have broader implications for policies promoting proactive adaptation in response to likely increased rainfall in the region. Targeting farmers who give lower weight to events far off in the future and understanding that many farmers may tend only to make adoption decisions that have strong short-term benefits could improve the efficacy of climate policies that target agricultural technologies.

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Impact of demographic variables on women’s economic empowerment: An ordered probit model

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Mass Media Exposure and Women’s Household Decision-Making Capacity in 30 Sub-Saharan African Countries: Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys

Mass Media Exposure and Women’s Household Decision-Making Capacity in 30 Sub-Saharan African Countries: Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys

Women Attribute and Household Level Factor on Women's Empowerment

Time discounting and implications for Chinese farmer responses to an upward trend in precipitation

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