2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Social Ties on Female Labor Force Participation in South Asia
| Project/Area Number |
18H00856
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 07040:Economic policy-related
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| Research Institution | Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization |
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Principal Investigator |
Makino Momoe 独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, その他部局等, 海外研究員 (50450531)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ションチョイ アブ 独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, 研究企画部, 海外研究員 (40617461)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | 女性の労働参加 / 社会的紐帯 / 社会規範 / ランダム化比較試験 / バングラデシュ / COVID-19 / 児童婚 / 学校閉鎖 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study has mainly three achievements:(1)Intervention offering the workshop in which girls and their parents could connect with female role model, (2)Phone-based survey to explore the effects of COVID-19 induced lockdown and school closure on children, (3)Empirical analysis on female labor force participation (LFP) in the patriarchal South Asian society.
(1) originally hypothesized that, in the patriarchal society, the intervention to girls with parents, but not girls alone, would be effective to enhance girls’ LFP. However, the empirical results show that the intervention to girls alone significantly and strongly enhanced their LFP. (2) showed that during the school closure, girls' time spent on household chores increased substantially more than boys', and the risk of female child marriage has increased among the households who had financial shock due to COVID-19 lockdown. (3) showed that increased girls’ agency, but not their academic or vocational skills, enhanced their LFP.
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| Free Research Field |
開発経済学 家族経済学 人口経済学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
①について、家父長的な社会規範に影響を与えることを目的とした介入実験の成果はまだ解明されておらず研究途上であり、学術的な意義は大きい。②について、コロナ禍のロックダウン・学校閉鎖がもたらした弊害については、学力の低下や児童婚の上昇など、UNICEFやUNFPA、UNESCOといった国際機関が警鐘を鳴らしている。本研究はその影響を実証したものであり、国際開発への政策的意義は大きい。③について、家父長的社会では、単なる学校教育による女子への人的投資では足らず、女子のエンパワメント教育の重要性を実証しており、学術的、国際開発への政策的意義ともに大きい。
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