The Participatory Index of Women's Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia
In this paper we develop the Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment, an innovative measurement tool that reflects its subjects’ own perceptions of empowerment. Participatory measurement is a response to the paradoxical potential for measurement of empowerment to disempower. A simple stated choic...
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2023
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| description | In this paper we develop the Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment, an innovative measurement tool that reflects its subjects’ own perceptions of empowerment. Participatory measurement is a response to the paradoxical potential for measurement of empowerment to disempower. A simple stated choice experiment allows participants to implicitly reveal the trade-offs that they make between different indicators of empowerment. This permits participatory determination of the relative weights for each indicator in a composite index, through estimation of a random utility model. We demonstrate the implementation of PIWE through a pilot application in the context of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of an Oxfam project in Tunisia. Despite a relatively small sample size, we can reject the hypothesis that participants’ perceptions of empowerment are consistent with equal weights. We find that the project had a significant positive impact on participants’ empowerment and find suggestive evidence of impact on their perceptions of empowerment. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:00dec25f-ee97-4164-bea1-57f7fe3dda872023-09-13T14:03:43ZThe Participatory Index of Women's Empowerment: development and an application in TunisiaWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:00dec25f-ee97-4164-bea1-57f7fe3dda87EnglishSymplectic ElementsOxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative2023Quinn, NNLombardini, SIn this paper we develop the Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment, an innovative measurement tool that reflects its subjects’ own perceptions of empowerment. Participatory measurement is a response to the paradoxical potential for measurement of empowerment to disempower. A simple stated choice experiment allows participants to implicitly reveal the trade-offs that they make between different indicators of empowerment. This permits participatory determination of the relative weights for each indicator in a composite index, through estimation of a random utility model. We demonstrate the implementation of PIWE through a pilot application in the context of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of an Oxfam project in Tunisia. Despite a relatively small sample size, we can reject the hypothesis that participants’ perceptions of empowerment are consistent with equal weights. We find that the project had a significant positive impact on participants’ empowerment and find suggestive evidence of impact on their perceptions of empowerment. |
| spellingShingle | Quinn, NN Lombardini, S The Participatory Index of Women's Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia |
| title | The Participatory Index of Women's Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia |
| title_full | The Participatory Index of Women's Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia |
| title_fullStr | The Participatory Index of Women's Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Participatory Index of Women's Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia |
| title_short | The Participatory Index of Women's Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia |
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