Aspirations and women’s empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorRussian Federation
cg.coverage.countryKyrgyzstan
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KG
cg.coverage.regionCentral Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierKatrina Kosec: 0000-0002-5126-5215
cg.creator.identifierKamiljon Akramov: 0000-0003-4357-0508
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number1786
cg.placeWashington, DC
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorKosec, Katrina
dc.contributor.authorAkramov, Kamiljon T.
dc.contributor.authorMirkasimov, Bakhrom
dc.contributor.authorSong, Jie
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:05:34Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:05:34Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146010
dc.titleAspirations and women’s empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstanen
dcterms.abstractCan having higher aspirations, or goals for the future, contribute to the empowerment of women? A growing literature shows that aspirations increase a host of forward-looking economic and political behaviors, from entrepreneurship to civic engagement. This has stimulated interest in development interventions aimed at reducing behavioral poverty traps. At the same time, a wealth of literature suggests that women’s empowerment and involvement in decision-making can be welfare-improving. It can increase household income and asset wealth by ensuring that women are economically active and have high levels of human capital; increase technical efficiency on the farm; and improve health, nutrition, and education outcomes for children. Linking these two literatures, we posit that one route to women’s empowerment may be to raise aspirations—either those of a woman herself, or those of her husband, who often wields considerable influence over her decision-making authority and access to resources. We find that having a husband who sets ambitious goals for himself predicts more egalitarian gender attitudes for both the husband and his wife. Higher aspirations on the part of wives also predict more egalitarian gender attitudes (for both the husband and his wife), but they additionally predict greater involvement of women in household decision-making. This suggests that efforts to fuel either men’s or women’s ambition can shift gender attitudes, but that targeting women is the more effective way to build women’s decision-making power.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKosec, Katrina; Akramov, Kamiljon T.; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; and Song, Jie. 2018. Aspirations and women’s empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1786. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146010en
dcterms.extent69 pages
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2018-12-24
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151061en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153895en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146109en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150032en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133520en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/133033
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectdemanden
dcterms.subjectempowermenten
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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