2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Conflict, Migration, and Women Empowerment in Nepal
| Project/Area Number |
19K01601
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| Research Institution | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
WIE Dainn 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 准教授 (50600649)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | Women's empowerment / Male outmigration |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In FY 2019, we completed our empirical analyses and published a working paper in GRIPS Discussion Papers Series. Our empirical results show that married women in households with male outmigrants in Nepal are less likely to be in polygamous relationships and are more likely to have the final say on their own health issues. However, these women are less likely to have freedom to visit their family or relatives, which is probably due to increased cohabitation with their parents-in-law. We published a working paper which contain our analyses, relevant interpretation, literature review, and discussion.
In FY 2019, we also began to disseminate our results at academic seminars to receive feedback and comments. We presented our research at Tribhuvan University in Nepal to get insights from Nepalese scholars. They provided us with some critical comments about outcome measures as well as instrument variables employed in the paper. We could not address all the comments due to lack of proper data. However, we included ample discussion about our outcome measures and robustness tests of instrument variable estimation. We also provided discussion about points to be answered by future research projects.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Our project is progressing rather smoothly than initially planned as we started to work on the project at the time of application. Also, co-investigator’s dedication to project made it possible to have considerable progress in relatively short time period.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In FY 2020 and FY 2021, we plan to submit our work to internationally peer-reviewed journal to officially disseminate our findings and policy implications. We also plan to circulate our work in various academic seminars and workshops to learn other scholars' insight as well. However, attending conferences could be difficult this year due to uncertainty related to global pandemic.
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