Posílení postavení žen a ekonomický rozvoj: Metaanalýza

Hatalová, Lucia Mária

Women's empowerment is often viewed as a potential channel of economic development, but the macroeconomic evidence remains fragmented. This thesis conducts a meta- analysis of 904 estimates from 66 primary studies covering education, labor-market par- ticipation, and broader institutional or composite measures of empowerment. The results point to a positive relationship between empowerment-related measures and economic development. Since the estimates are standardized as partial correlation coefficients, they summarize the direction and relative strength of this relationship rather than the effect of a specific policy intervention. The evidence is strongest for education-based measures, where the positive association remains after correcting for publication bias. Estimates based on labor-market measures are also generally positive, but less precise and more sensitive to specification. Other dimensions of empowerment are included in the aggre- gate analysis, but remain too sparsely represented for a separate quantitative synthesis. Bayesian and frequentist model averaging show that reported estimates depend strongly on measurement and empirical design. Relative measures of empowerment, such as gen- der gaps and female-to-male ratios, tend to yield larger estimates. In contrast, panel data, fixed...

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