Do remittances impact gender equality ? Evidence from Africa

Hamed Sambo

No 2016-08, CEPN Working Papers from Centre d'Economie de l'Université de Paris Nord

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of remittances on gender equality in Africa using panel data from 21 African countries spanning the years 2006-2014. The two-step IV-GMM method was considered after taking into account the potential endogeneity of remittances. We found that remittances have a positive effect on gender equality in general but this effect is only significant in Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, we found that remittances positively impact women’s economic and women’s political empowerment. They also have a positive e↵ect on women’s education attainment and women’s health and survival. However, theses impacts are only significant in Sub-Saharan Africa, except for women’s health and survival.

Keywords: Remittances; Gender equality; Economic empowerment; Education attainmenent; Health and Survival; Political empowerment; IV-GMM; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2016-08
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