教育和赋予妇女权力：来自乌干达的证据

IF 1.3 4区经济学 Q3 DEMOGRAPHY

Journal of Demographic Economics Pub Date : 2023-09-06 DOI:10.1017/dem.2023.23

Thao Bui

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摘要

乌干达政府于1997年推行了一项教育改革，取消了小学学龄儿童的学费。本文发现，改革带来的教育增长对妇女赋权产生了积极影响。具体而言，由于改革，学校教育的增加提高了妇女参与家庭决策的程度，增加了她们在与自身健康、大额家庭开支以及探亲访亲有关的问题上拥有最终发言权的可能性。教育提高了妇女的认知能力，但对妇女的劳动力市场机会和对基于性别的暴力的态度没有影响。

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Education and women's empowerment: evidence from Uganda

The government of Uganda introduced an education reform that eliminated school fees for primary school-age children in 1997. This paper finds that an increase in education, generated by the reform, has a positive impact on women's empowerment. Specifically, an increase in schooling, due to the reform, improves women's involvement in decision making within the household by increasing their likelihood of having a final say on issues related to their own health, about large household expenses, and regarding visits to family or relatives. Education enhances women's cognitive ability but has no impact on women's labor market opportunities and attitudes toward gender-based violence.

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Journal of Demographic Economics Multiple-

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2.30

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期刊介绍： 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.