abstract: 'How do perceptions of one''s relative economic status affect gender

  attitudes, including support for women''s economic participation and

  involvement in decision-making in their community and household? We

  conducted a 2018 survey experiment with female and male adults in

  approximately 1000 households in Papua New Guinea. Employing an

  established survey treatment to subtly alter respondents'' perception of

  their relative economic wellbeing, we find that increased feelings of

  relative deprivation make both men and women significantly more likely

  to support girls'' schooling and women''s paid employment, suggesting that

  relative economic insecurity can actually prompt support for women''s

  economic participation. However, increased feelings of relative

  deprivation may trigger greater intrahousehold tension. While increased

  perceptions of relative deprivation cause women to want more household

  decision-making authority, men''s attitudes toward women''s proper roles

  in decision-making are unchanged. In other words, increased support for

  women''s economic participation among men appears to stem mainly from a

  desire to raise household income, and not to alter the general role of

  women in society. The results underscore the multifaceted nature of

  gender attitudes, and how support for women''s economic participation may

  rise without simultaneous increases in women''s agency in

  decision-making. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.'
affiliation: 'Kosec, K (Corresponding Author), Int Food Policy Res Inst, Washington,
  DC 20036 USA.

  Kosec, Katrina; Schmidt, Emily, Int Food Policy Res Inst, Washington, DC 20036 USA.

  Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung; Song, Jie, Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.'
article-number: '105218'
author: Kosec, Katrina and Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung and Schmidt, Emily and Song, Jie
author-email: 'k.kosec@cgiar.org

  cecilia.h.mo@berkeley.edu

  e.schmidt@cgiar.org

  jiesong@berkeley.edu'
author_list:
- family: Kosec
  given: Katrina
- family: Mo
  given: Cecilia Hyunjung
- family: Schmidt
  given: Emily
- family: Song
  given: Jie
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105218
files: []
issn: 0305-750X
journal: WORLD DEVELOPMENT
keywords: 'Women''s empowerment; Gender attitudes; Inequality; Labor force

  participation; Relative deprivation; Experiment'
keywords-plus: 'INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; GENDER-ROLE ATTITUDES; SELF-HELP GROUPS;

  ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; BARGAINING POWER; FIELD EXPERIMENT; RESPONSE

  SCALES; PROSPECT-THEORY; INEQUALITY; INCOME'
language: English
month: FEB
number-of-cited-references: '138'
orcid-numbers: Song, Jie/0000-0003-1108-5188
papis_id: da6d80ee8304b924230eb8e1dce89a8b
ref: Kosec2021perceptionsrelative
researcherid-numbers: Song, Jie/ABW-6627-2022
times-cited: '7'
title: Perceptions of relative deprivation and women's empowerment
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000601162800027
usage-count-last-180-days: '7'
usage-count-since-2013: '27'
volume: '138'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics
year: '2021'