Female autonomy and women's welfare: An introduction

TY - JOUR

T1 - Female autonomy and women's welfare

T2 - An introduction

AU - Sharma, Smriti

AU - Tarp, Finn

PY - 2018/11

Y1 - 2018/11

N2 - Gender equality and female empowerment are important goals in themselves. They are also potential means to achieving desirable outcomes in domains related to fertility, child health, education, and poverty alleviation (e.g., Duflo, 2003; Lundberg, Pollak, & Wales, 1997; World Bank, 2012). This has led to women's empowerment being a key policy goal in recent decades, especially since the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1979.

AB - Gender equality and female empowerment are important goals in themselves. They are also potential means to achieving desirable outcomes in domains related to fertility, child health, education, and poverty alleviation (e.g., Duflo, 2003; Lundberg, Pollak, & Wales, 1997; World Bank, 2012). This has led to women's empowerment being a key policy goal in recent decades, especially since the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1979.

U2 - 10.1111/rode.12542

DO - 10.1111/rode.12542

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1363-6669

VL - 22

SP - 1385

EP - 1389

JO - Review of Development Economics

JF - Review of Development Economics

IS - 4

ER -