Better Access to Water Raises Welfare, But Not Women's Off-Farm Work

• Tác giả: Dominique van de Walle
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.43 Womens occupations
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 309013
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO MARKETS; 2. ADEQUATE EDUCATION; 3. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; 4. CHANNEL; 5. CHANNELS

Tóm tắt

In the developing world, poor rural women and their children spend considerable time collecting water. Do women living in areas where more time is needed for water collection tend to participate less in income-earning, market-based activities? Do the education outcomes of their children tend to be worse? This note uses micro-data for eight developing countries to examine these questions. Better access to water is not found to be associated with greater off-farm paid work for women, but is associated with less unpaid work. In countries where substantial gender gaps in schooling exist, enrollment for both boys and girls tends to be higher.