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Title Is education a determinant of women's decision-making power within the household? A case study of an educational reform in Kenya
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/2077/62177
Date 2019
Author(s) Villemo Karnström, Ida
Abstract Female empowerment is important for economic development. In this paper, I will examine the relationship between education and decision-making power within the household. Because of the issue of omitted variable bias, I will use a Difference-in-Difference method to test this relationship, using different exposure to the 1985 educational reform in Kenya. The two differences used are age cohorts and if one comes from a district with a low or high mean year of schooling in 1979. The findings show a fairly robust positive effect from the reform on two out of the five questions regarding final say on different decisions, namely the daily decisions. There is mainly no significant effect on the other dependent variables. I present several robustness checks for these results. - MSc in Economics
Subject(s) Kenya; Educational reform; Empowerment; Decision-making power
Language eng
Relation Master Degree Project; 2019:106
Type of publication H2
Repository Gothenberg - University of Gothenberg
Added to C-A: 2019-10-29;09:49:57