Identifying Causal Effects of Reproductive Health Improvements on Women's Economic Empowerment Through the Population Poverty Research Initiative

Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Lee, Marlene A.

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“…Providing women with a full range of reproductive health services would help to bring meaningful changes not only to women's reproductive health, but also their ability to take full advantage of educational and employment opportunities. Economic Empowerment, ICRW 1120 20th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, United Goldin and Katz (2002); Angeles, Guilkey, and Mroz (2005); Miller (2010); Aaronson et al (2017); and Finlay and Lee (2018). 4 This is the proportion of a country's working-age population that engages actively in the labor market, either by working or by looking for work, where work is typically defined in accordance with the ILO's definitions of labor force participation (ILO 2015).…”

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The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

Gammage¹,

Joshi

Rodgers

2019

Feminist Economics

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This article examines the connections between women's reproductive health, care responsibilities, and the quality of work. The research suggests that the economic empowerment of women, manifest in their choice of where and when to work, and of the terms and conditions of that work, is intimately linked to reproductive empowerment and reproductive outcomes. Simplistic discourse in development policy about educating girls and getting women into the labor force will not translate into goals being met unless attention is paid to women's reproductive health and rights. This analysis highlights the data limitations inherent in existing surveys that frustrate a more-nuanced inquiry into employment and fertility outcomes. Analysts and statistical agencies responsible for household and labor force survey design could certainly apply some of the information they gain from questions that elicit retrospective histories of contraception and fertility to inform their interpretations of women's employment history, job quality, and labor market intermittency.

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The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

Gammage¹,

Joshi

Rodgers

2019

Feminist Economics

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“…A decline in the total fertility rate to the replacement rate of 2.1 children per women has been shown to have a positive impact on a nation’s economic prosperity (the demographic dividend [2–4]). The consideration of the total fertility rate is usually reported at the national level, and national-level declines in fertility then translate to national-level economic benefits.…”

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Inequality in total fertility rates and the proximate determinants of fertility in 21 sub-Saharan African countries

Finlay

Mejía‐Guevara

Akachi³

2018

PLoS ONE

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In this paper, we examine the inequality in the dynamics of the total fertility rate within 21 sub-Saharan African countries by wealth quintiles. We also examine the associated inequality within each country in the proximate determinants of fertility–marriage, contraception, and breastfeeding. Applying Bongaarts’ proximate determinants of fertility framework, for 14/21 countries we analyze, we find that those in the richest wealth quintiles have had a more rapid decline in fertility rates than those in the poorest wealth quintiles. The rapid decline for those in the richest wealth quintiles is attributable to delayed marriage and modest increases in contraceptive use. Although the poorest lag in fertility decline, postpartum abstinence and breastfeeding are the most important factors for them for fertility regulation. Further encouraging maternal health programs that focus on natural methods of fertility regulation will work in favor of the poorest in sub-Saharan Africa in moving through the demographic transition.

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“…While our analysis focused on reductions in gender inequity from overall improvements to healthy life expectancy, Finlay and Lee (2018) have examined the causal linkages between improvements in reproductive health, specifically, and the economic empowerment dimensions of gender equity [66]. This analysis relied on empirical evidence to draw similar conclusions that reproductive health improvements can and do empower women through effects on education, labor force participation, and childbearing.…”

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The impact of vaccination on gender equity: conceptual framework and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine case study

Portnoy

Clark

Ozawa

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Int J Equity Health

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Background: Although the beneficial effects of vaccines on equity by socioeconomic status and geography are increasingly well-documented, little has been done to extend these analyses to examine the linkage between vaccination and gender equity. In this paper, evidence from the published literature is used to develop a conceptual framework demonstrating the potential impact of vaccination on measures of gender equity. This framework is then applied to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in three countries with different economic and disease burden profiles to establish a proof of concept in a variety of contexts. Methods: We conducted a literature review examining evidence on the linkage between health outcomes and dimensions of gender equity. We utilized the Papillomavirus Rapid Interface for Modelling and Economics (PRIME) model to estimate cervical cancer incidence and deaths due to HPV types 16/18 by age in each country. We estimated labor force participation and fertility effects from improvements in health, and converted these into inputs consistent with those used to calculate the United Nations Gender Inequality Index to assess gender equity. Results: In our case study, we found that HPV vaccination among girls could help narrow socioeconomic gender disparities by quantifying the main pathways by which HPV vaccination improves health, which enables improvement in gender equity indicators such as labor force participation and maternal mortality ratios. While these improvements are small when averaged over the entire population, the components measuredlabor force participation and maternal mortality ratioaccount for 50% of the index scores. Conclusions: This proof of concept model is a starting point to inform future health and economic analyses that might incorporate the impact of gender equity as an additional impact of vaccination in improving the health and well-being of the population.

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Identifying Causal Effects of Reproductive Health Improvements on Women's Economic Empowerment Through the Population Poverty Research Initiative

Cited by 30 publications

References 34 publications

The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

Inequality in total fertility rates and the proximate determinants of fertility in 21 sub-Saharan African countries

The impact of vaccination on gender equity: conceptual framework and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine case study

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