Abstract/Description
Women decision-making power within the household is an important component of women empowerment. In recent studies, the effect of violent conflict on women’s decision-making power has become an evolving topic in literature. The current study is an attempt to unleash the effect of terrorist attacks on women’s decision-making within the household in the case of Pakistan. The study examined the impact of terrorist attacks on women’s decision making power during the surge and after the surge in the violent conflict. The study selected the three rounds of data from the Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2005-06, 2013- 14 and 2018-19. The record of terrorist attacks taken from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which records every terrorist attack. So, we have exploited the temporal and spatial variation in the terrorist attacks data because in KPK and Balochistan, the intensity of the attacks was very high compared to Sindh and Punjab. The results indicate an average increase of approximately 25% in women's participation in decision-making, which is notably higher than previously reported magnitudes in the literature. This underscores the unique and potent effect of high-intensity violence such as terrorism on women's empowerment within households. Further analysis using a stricter measure of empowerment, namely the dichotomous variable of women's decision-making, also confirms these findings, showing an increase in the probability of women's participation in household decisions by approximately 12 percentage points compared to unexposed women.
Keywords
Conflict, Decision-Making, DID, Women Empowerment
Location
MAV 2 room, Adamjee building
Session Theme
Human Development and Inclusion II
Session Type
Parallel Technical Session
Session Chair
Abdul Salam Lodhi, Baluchistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences
Session Discussant
Amir Jahan, Institute of Business Administration ; Sadia Mehboob, Institute of Business Administration
Start Date
9-12-2024 2:30 PM
End Date
9-12-2024 4:30 PM
Recommended Citation
Sultana, S. (2024). Effect of Violent Conflict on Female DecisionMaking Power within the Household. CBER Conference. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/esdcber/2024/program/5
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Effect of Violent Conflict on Female DecisionMaking Power within the Household
MAV 2 room, Adamjee building
Women decision-making power within the household is an important component of women empowerment. In recent studies, the effect of violent conflict on women’s decision-making power has become an evolving topic in literature. The current study is an attempt to unleash the effect of terrorist attacks on women’s decision-making within the household in the case of Pakistan. The study examined the impact of terrorist attacks on women’s decision making power during the surge and after the surge in the violent conflict. The study selected the three rounds of data from the Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2005-06, 2013- 14 and 2018-19. The record of terrorist attacks taken from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which records every terrorist attack. So, we have exploited the temporal and spatial variation in the terrorist attacks data because in KPK and Balochistan, the intensity of the attacks was very high compared to Sindh and Punjab. The results indicate an average increase of approximately 25% in women's participation in decision-making, which is notably higher than previously reported magnitudes in the literature. This underscores the unique and potent effect of high-intensity violence such as terrorism on women's empowerment within households. Further analysis using a stricter measure of empowerment, namely the dichotomous variable of women's decision-making, also confirms these findings, showing an increase in the probability of women's participation in household decisions by approximately 12 percentage points compared to unexposed women.
