Trial reportDemography2019
The Impact of Childcare on Poor Urban Women's Economic Empowerment in Africa.
Trial report in Demography, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Sociodemographic predictors of parenting stress among mothers in socio-economically deprived settings in rural and urban Kenya and Zambia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Smart investment in global childcare requires local solutions and a coordinated research agenda.BMJ global health · 2023Article
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- Women's Empowerment, Income, and Nutrition in a Food Processing Value Chain Development Project in Touba, Senegal.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Examining vulnerability and resilience in maternal, newborn and child health through a gender lens in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Women's employment and Children's education: Longitudinal evidence from Nepal.Social science research · 2022Article
- Strengthening women's empowerment and gender equality in fragile contexts towards peaceful and inclusive societies: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2022Review
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the Kidogo model in empowering women and strengthening their capacities to engage in paid labor opportunities through the provision of quality childcare: a study protocol for an exploratory study in Nakuru County, Kenya.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2022Article
- Who actually cares for children in slums? Why we need to think, and do, more about paid childcare in urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Non-Parental Family Members as Brokers of Family Social Capital: Compensatory Time Use in India.Social sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Women's employment and fertility in a global perspective (1960-2015).Demographic researchArticle
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Abstract
Despite evidence from other regions, researchers and policy-makers remain skeptical that women's disproportionate childcare responsibilities act as a significant barrier to women's economic empowerment in Africa. This randomized control trial study in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, demonstrates that limited access to affordable early childcare inhibits poor urban women's participation in paid work. Women who were offered vouchers for subsidized early childcare were, on average, 8.5 percentage points more likely to be employed than those who were not given vouchers. Most of these employment gains were realized by married mothers. Single mothers, in contrast, benefited by significantly reducing the time spent working without any loss to their earnings by shifting to jobs with more regular hours. The effects on other measures of women's economic empowerment were mixed. With the exception of children's health care, access to subsidized daycare did not increase women's participation in other important household decisions. In addition, contrary to concerns that reducing the costs of childcare may elevate women's desire for more children, we find no effect on women's fertility intentions. These findings demonstrate that the impact of subsidized childcare differs by marital status and across outcomes. Nonetheless, in poor urban Africa, as elsewhere, failure to address women's childcare needs undermines efforts to promote women's economic empowerment.
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