A structural equation model of female empowerment
This paper proposes a structural equation model to measure and explain female empower-ment in Cambodia. Empowerment is defined as the decision-making ability of a woman regarding her strategic and non-strategic life choices. Grounded in the Capability Approach and in the gender economics literature...
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| description | This paper proposes a structural equation model to measure and explain female empower-ment in Cambodia. Empowerment is defined as the decision-making ability of a woman regarding her strategic and non-strategic life choices. Grounded in the Capability Approach and in the gender economics literature this conceptualisation accounts for three key ele-ments: resources, values/traditions, and decision-outcomes. These elements interact into a system of structural equations where a latent variable is specified to measure empowerment; decision-outcomes enter as partial metrics of empowerment; and resources, and val-ues/traditions are modelled as exogenous factors. Stochastic dominance analysis is used to compare the empowerment status of women across life choices |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b75529c9-1fa7-4efa-b838-a87640bde0ee2022-03-27T04:47:42ZA structural equation model of female empowermentJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b75529c9-1fa7-4efa-b838-a87640bde0eeSymplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2017Ballon Fernandez, PThis paper proposes a structural equation model to measure and explain female empower-ment in Cambodia. Empowerment is defined as the decision-making ability of a woman regarding her strategic and non-strategic life choices. Grounded in the Capability Approach and in the gender economics literature this conceptualisation accounts for three key ele-ments: resources, values/traditions, and decision-outcomes. These elements interact into a system of structural equations where a latent variable is specified to measure empowerment; decision-outcomes enter as partial metrics of empowerment; and resources, and val-ues/traditions are modelled as exogenous factors. Stochastic dominance analysis is used to compare the empowerment status of women across life choices |
| spellingShingle | Ballon Fernandez, P A structural equation model of female empowerment |
| title | A structural equation model of female empowerment |
| title_full | A structural equation model of female empowerment |
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