Rural electrification and women's empowerment in Côte d’Ivoire

IF 2.4 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY
Jean-Louis Bago, W. Djezou, L. Tiberti, Landry Achy
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PurposeThis paper assesses the impact of this program on the rural women's employment opportunities using data from the 2015 round of the household's living standard survey (HLSS) of Côte d'Ivoire.Design/methodology/approachIn 2013, in order to improve the living conditions of the rural population, the Ivorian government launched the National Program for rural electrification (PRONER) to electrify all localities with more than 500 inhabitants.FindingsThe results show that PRONER, while reducing the time allocated to performing household chores, increases women's employment through the reallocation of time to full-time paid work in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. The authors also find that the allocation of men's time is not affected by this programme. A possible mechanism that would explain such a pro-women effect is the labour-saving technology introduced to home production as an effect of the reform.Research limitations/implicationsAs a limitation, it is important to note that these results were obtained in the specific context of PRONER in Côte d’Ivoire and are not necessarily applicable to rural electrification programmes in other contexts. Furthermore, the choice of other indicators to measure women's empowerment is limited by the quality of the data available. It would be interesting for future research to extend this analysis to include other aspects of women's empowerment and household welfare.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to the author’s knowledge to apply a robust econometric method by combining an inverse probability weighted regression adjustment model with Heckman sample selection method to access a robust causal effect of the PRONER in Côte d'Ivoire.
Côte科特迪瓦的农村电气化和妇女赋权
目的本文利用2015年科特迪瓦家庭生活水平调查(HLSS)的数据,评估了该计划对农村妇女就业机会的影响。设计/方法/方法2013年,为了改善农村人口的生活条件,科特迪瓦政府启动了全国农村电气化计划,为500多名居民的所有地区供电。结果表明,PRONER在减少分配给做家务的时间的同时,通过将时间重新分配给农业和非农业部门的全职带薪工作,增加了妇女的就业。作者还发现,男子的时间分配不受这一方案的影响。解释这种亲妇女效应的一个可能机制是,作为改革的一个影响,将节省劳动力的技术引入家庭生产。研究局限性/含义作为一个局限性,重要的是要注意,这些结果是在科特迪瓦PRONER的具体背景下获得的,不一定适用于其他背景下的农村电气化计划。此外,衡量妇女赋权的其他指标的选择也受到现有数据质量的限制。未来的研究将有兴趣将这一分析扩展到妇女赋权和家庭福利的其他方面。独创性/价值本文是作者所知的第一篇应用稳健计量经济学方法的论文,将逆概率加权回归调整模型与Heckman样本选择方法相结合,以获得科特迪瓦PRONER的稳健因果效应。
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4.60
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37.50%
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies publishes double-blind peer-reviewed research on issues relevant to agriculture and food value chain in emerging economies in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The journal welcomes original research, particularly empirical/applied, quantitative and qualitative work on topics pertaining to policies, processes, and practices in the agribusiness arena in emerging economies to inform researchers, practitioners and policy makers
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