Armed conflicts and women's authority in intra‐household decision making

Kien Le and My Nguyen

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2023, vol. 70, issue 3, 249-267

Abstract: This paper evaluates the extent to which armed conflicts alter women's intra‐household decision making in 51 countries over the past three decades (1990–2018). Exploiting the variations both within and across districts in the timing of battles, we uncover adverse consequences of armed conflict on women's engagement in household decisions on both financial and non‐financial aspects. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in the number of battles (equivalent to an increase of 5.1 battles) reduces the composite financial and non‐financial decision indices of women by 2.32% and 1.34% relative to the sample averages. Breaking down the decision‐making indices by looking at the underlying items, we further find that the declines in women's intra‐household decision making come from reductions in all aspects of financial and non‐financial domains.

Date: 2023
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