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Impacts Of Contraception On Women’S Decision-Making Agency In Indonesia, Michaela J. Fogarty
Impacts Of Contraception On Women’S Decision-Making Agency In Indonesia, Michaela J. Fogarty
Undergraduate Economic Review
Increasing access to contraception has the potential to empower women and improve the economic standing of families across the globe. Many researchers have explored the impacts of contraception on families and the determinants of women’s level of empowerment, but little scholarship exists on their direct relationship. This paper explores the impacts of contraceptive use on women’s empowerment, measured by a sum of women’s household decision-making agency. Panel data from three rounds of the Indonesian Family Life Survey is used to run multiple regressions with household fixed effects. Results suggest that women who use contraception have input on two additional types …