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Does women's political empowerment promote public health expenditure in Africa?

Sosson Tadadjeu et al.

Economics Bulletin2021article
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0.57

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This paper analyses the effect of women's political empowerment on public health expenditure in a sample of 48 African countries over the period 2000-2017. Using The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), the two-step system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), and the Sequential Linear Panel Dynamic Model (SELPDM), the results provide strong evidence of a positive effect of women's political empowerment on public health expenditure in Africa. This result is robust to additional control variables, to alternative measures of women's political empowerment, to alternative measure of health expenditure, to outliers, and to alternative data structure. Based on these findings, we encourage efforts to promote the African women's political empowerment and suggest an increase in the number of seats held by women in parliaments.

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@article{sosson2021,
  title        = {{Does women's political empowerment promote public health expenditure in Africa?}},
  author       = {Sosson Tadadjeu et al.},
  journal      = {Economics Bulletin},
  year         = {2021},
}

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Evidence weight

0.57

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.56 × 0.4 = 0.23
M · momentum0.80 × 0.15 = 0.12
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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