Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen

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dc.creatorPeterman, Amber
dc.creatorSchwab, Benjamin
dc.creatorRoy, Shalini
dc.creatorHidrobo, Melissa
dc.creatorGilligan, Daniel O.
dc.date2015-08-07
dc.date2024-08-01T02:50:04Z
dc.date2024-08-01T02:50:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:43:50Z
dc.descriptionDespite wide use of women’s decisionmaking indicators, both as a direct measure of intrahousehold decisionmaking and as a proxy for women’s empowerment or bargaining power, little has been done to explore what such indicators capture and how effective they measure program impacts on empowerment. We review theoretical and operational evidence from recent literature on women’s decisionmaking and analyze survey experiments undertaken in cash and food transfer programs in Ecuador, Yemen, and Uganda from 2010 to 2012. We find large variations in how women are ranked in terms of decisionmaking depending on how indicators are constructed. In addition, we find that across countries, composite decisionmaking indicators are not consistently associated with other proxy measures of women’s empowerment or household welfare, such as women’s education levels or household food consumption. We also find mixed evidence across countries related to the impact of transfer programs on women’s decisionmaking indicators. We conclude with implications of our findings for future research and use of decisionmaking indicators for program evaluation in developing countries.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149844
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/112999
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151453
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149441
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149834
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150076
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourcePeterman, Amber; Schwab, Benjamin; Roy, Shalini; Hidrobo, Melissa; and Gilligan, Daniel. 2015. Measuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1453. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149844
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectwomen's empowerment
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectcash transfer
dc.subjectempowerment
dc.subjectdecision making
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectfood consumption
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleMeasuring women’s decisionmaking: Indicator choice and survey design experiments from cash and food transfer evaluations in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen
dc.typeWorking Paper

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