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06 Ott 2021 12:15

Annarita Macchioni Giaquinto - Fertility implications to assets ownership (Pre-defense)

Meeting Room 1 (San Giobbe Economics Campus) + Live streaming (ZOOM)

Full title: Fertility implications to assets ownership in the rural context, evidence from a policy reform in Nepal

Annarita Macchioni Giaquinto, Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Abstract: This work explores the causal link between asset ownership and fertility. In developing countries, assets are crucial to income generating-activities and to well-being. Yet, a systematic gender asset gap hinters women’s empowerment, limiting their voice and agency in the society and within marriage. Collective modelling predicts that a change in bargaining- power resulted from a change in the distribution and control of resources, including assets, might affect fertility outcomes. To address endogeneity, we exploit a pro-woman legal innovation implemented in Nepal in 2002 that provided married women equal right to their husband’s property, immediately after marriage. Using Nepal’s cross-sectional data from DHS, we apply regression discontinuity in time and before-after comparison on matched women. Results show that female asset ownership induced a sizable and statistically significant reduction in fertility and has demographic implication for developing countries.

The seminar can be attended also remotely, connecting to ZOOM: https://unive.zoom.us/j/87034950183 - Meeting ID 870 3495 0183

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L'evento si terrà in inglese

Organizzatore

Department of Economics (InSeminars)

Link

https://unive.zoom.us/j/87034950183

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