Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare?: Evidence from Ghana

Michael Danquah, Abdul Malik Iddrisu, Ernest Owusu Boakye and Solomon Owusu

No wp-2021-40, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The structural parameters of the post-double selection LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household welfare.

Keywords: Wage gap; Households; Women's empowerment; Welfare; Machine learning; Ghana; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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