Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214601 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2017-08
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Zürich
Abstract: 
Female education and its potential to empower women in the development process have engaged the interest of policy makers and academics over the years. By employing individual level data from Ghana and Uganda, we analyze whether female education has a direct bargaining effect on six household welfare indicators: child labor and school enrollment; food expenditure and nutrition intake; female labor force participation and fertility rates. The empirical results indicate that both, the level of the wife and her husband's education, are significant determinants of household welfare. However, the wife's education has no larger effect than that of her husband's, and the relative bargaining position of the wife, at most, has negligible effects on the welfare indicators studied. Further robustness analysis largely confirms our findings. We conclude that, whilst female education has the potential to enhance household welfare, the effect does not necessarily work though enhanced bargaining power.
Subjects: 
Women Empowerment
Intra-household Bargaining
Household Welfare
Ghana
Uganda
JEL: 
I2
J13
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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