{"title":"Relationship between asset ownership and women's empowerment? Evidence from DHS data from 18 developing countries","authors":"Rafi Amir-ud-Din, Lubna Naz, Hafeez Ali","doi":"10.1017/dem.2023.17","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study identifies the link between women's asset ownership and women's empowerment. Women's empowerment is measured by their decision-making role related to their health, large household purchases, and their social interaction. Using Demographic and Health Surveys data for 18 countries from South Asia, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa, we found that the women who owned assets were 14% more likely to be empowered compared with the women who did not own any asset (odds ratio: 1.14, 95% confidence interval: 1.10–1.185). At a disaggregated country level, asset ownership was positively and significantly associated with women's empowerment in nine countries, negatively associated in one country, and had no significant association in the other eight countries. This study provides important insights into the link between women's asset ownership and empowerment and may inform public policy related to gender equality through women's empowerment.","PeriodicalId":43286,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Demographic Economics","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Demographic Economics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2023.17","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"DEMOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This study identifies the link between women's asset ownership and women's empowerment. Women's empowerment is measured by their decision-making role related to their health, large household purchases, and their social interaction. Using Demographic and Health Surveys data for 18 countries from South Asia, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa, we found that the women who owned assets were 14% more likely to be empowered compared with the women who did not own any asset (odds ratio: 1.14, 95% confidence interval: 1.10–1.185). At a disaggregated country level, asset ownership was positively and significantly associated with women's empowerment in nine countries, negatively associated in one country, and had no significant association in the other eight countries. This study provides important insights into the link between women's asset ownership and empowerment and may inform public policy related to gender equality through women's empowerment.
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Demographic variables such as fertility, mortality, migration and family structures notably respond to economic incentives and in turn affect the economic development of societies. Journal of Demographic Economics welcomes both empirical and theoretical papers on issues relevant to Demographic Economics with a preference for combining abstract economic or demographic models together with data to highlight major mechanisms. The journal was first published in 1929 as Bulletin de l’Institut des Sciences Economiques. It later became known as Louvain Economic Review, and continued till 2014 to publish under this title. In 2015, it moved to Cambridge University Press, increased its international character and changed its focus exclusively to demographic economics.
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