The effects of women's bargaining power on contraceptive use: Evidence from Zambia

Tamara Pressman
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Abstract: This project aims to examine the relationship between women's household bargaining power and their adoption of modern contraception in Zambia, using the 2018 DHS survey data. Relying on direct measures of women's bargaining power (as indicated by the preexisting literature), which include a woman's ability to make decisions about her own healthcare, large household purchases, small household purchases, visits to her family and friends, and contraceptive use, as well as measures of her autonomous financial capability. This measure of financial capability is then interacted with a woman's ability to make healthcare decisions solely or jointly with her husband, to shed additional light on the influence that bargaining power has on the uptake of modern contraceptive methods. Having both financial capability and the sole ability to make healthcare decisions for herself increases a woman's probability of adopting modern contraception.

Date: 2025-10-05
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