Female empowerment and the education of children in Nepal

Hatlebakk, Magnus; Gurung, Yogendra Bahadur

doi:10.1353/jda.2016.0083

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“…Anderson and Eswaran (2009) investigate the relative contributions of earned versus unearned income in boosting women’s autonomy in Bangladesh. Hatlebakk and Gurung (2014) find a positive association between women’s greater relative landholdings and the education of girls and boys in Nepal. Other studies consider variables other than assets or income to measure women’s empowerment.…”

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The status of women and its influence on children’s well‐being: Do geography, religion and income matter? A comparative study

Panday

Rackie

Kula

2020

Development Policy Review

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Motivation: In most families around the world, women are children's primary caregivers. An improvement in women's status, besides being vital in its own right, has significant positive externalities since the welfare of children has consequences for long-term economic growth and development. Research question: Could enabling women to have greater opportunities to be productive members of society have a positive relationship with child welfare? Approach and methods: We examine the relationship between women's and children's well-being for a group of developing countries. We first study this in the context of the overall sample, and then in various country groupings, based on per capita income, geography and religion. A descriptive comparative study and a regression analysis are conducted. Findings and conclusions: We find that women's enhanced well-being is strongly related to improved child welfare. Although there is a wide variation in women's well-being within and across various income, geographic and religious groups, our results are robust across and within all groups. In the regression analysis, the only variable that is consistently significant in influencing outcomes for children is our measure of women's well-being. We cannot reach a clear conclusion regarding the influence of geography, religion and even gross domestic product per capita on child outcomes. Policy implications: It seems imperative for women's empowerment to be a part of every development agenda; a priority in itself, rather than something that should trickle down with overall development. An improvement in women's status, besides being vital in its own right, has significant positive externalities since children's welfare has consequences for long-term economic growth and development. In our study, it is the single most important factor with a definite impact on children's welfare.

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The status of women and its influence on children’s well‐being: Do geography, religion and income matter? A comparative study

Panday

Rackie

Kula

2020

Development Policy Review

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“…Conversely, women's greater access to income and resources, better nutritional status and higher education result in better health and educational outcomes for their children [19][20][21]. In turn, greater investment in child welfare improves the productivity of the next generation of workers and has a positive effect on economic development [22].…”

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Food Insecurity in Central-Eastern Europe: Does Gender Matter?

Dudek

Myszkowska-Ryciak

2022

Sustainability

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Food insecurity (FI) remains a challenge not only in less-developed countries but also worldwide. The literature indicates higher rates of FI for women than men in some regions of the world. Thus, the main objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess differences in experiencing FI according to gender in Central-Eastern Europe—a region that has been little researched in terms of FI. The study analyzes individual-level data on FI from the Gallup World Poll (GWP) for the years 2018–2019, obtained under a license from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Dataset encompasses representative samples of individuals aged 15 and above for each studied country. Apart from bivariate analysis, the ordered logistic regression, the generalized ordered logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression models were used. It was found that women experienced mild FI more often than men. However, gender differences with respect to moderate or severe FI were not confirmed. Moreover, the significant associations of all severity levels of FI with education, employment status, social capital, social network, age, marital status, household composition and income were observed. The research findings can be used to inform policy and to design targeted assistance programs for those in need.

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“…Previous academic studies that have analyzed the relationship between women’s empowerment and child welfare, for Nepal, have used some form of landownership status of women as a measure of women’s empowerment. Hatlebakk and Gurung (2016) use the relative landownership of the paternal and maternal side of the extended family as a measure of female economic empowerment. They also consider the role a woman has in making decisions regarding vising her relatives.…”

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Women’s Empowerment and the Well-being of Children in Nepal

Panday

2020

Journal of Developing Societies

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This article examines the relationship between women’s empowerment and child well-being in Nepal. Various indicators of women’s empowerment and child well-being are presented and compared across the seven provinces in the country. A strong positive relationship between the two is established. In fact, women’s empowerment appears to have a stronger relationship to children’s well-being than wealth indicators.

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Female empowerment and the education of children in Nepal

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

The status of women and its influence on children’s well‐being: Do geography, religion and income matter? A comparative study

The status of women and its influence on children’s well‐being: Do geography, religion and income matter? A comparative study

Food Insecurity in Central-Eastern Europe: Does Gender Matter?

Women’s Empowerment and the Well-being of Children in Nepal

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