Intrahousehold gender relations and sustainable farming: Survey evidence from four African countries
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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Inconsistency in self-reported intra-household decision making:
-Merely enumeration errors?
-Intra-household power relations (Ambler et al. 2021; Annan et al. 2021)
Asymmetry in power and subjective perceptions:
-Intra-spousal communications
-Agreement: Less Intra-household friction -> faster decision-making and speedy actions
-Disagreement: Underlying conflict and slower joint evaluation of options Disagreement ->
Poorer development outcomes:
-Reproductive health care use (Story and Burgard, 2012)
-Children’s well-being (Annan et al., 2021), Women’s well-being (Ambler et al., 2021)
-Agricultural outcomes? Limited study
Contributions of our study:
-Describe and compare spousal decision-making perceptions across countries
-Explore the factors explaining disagreement
-Association of spousal (dis)agreement on decision-making roles and agricultural outcomes
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gender, households