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100 _aMolina, Teresa and Tanaka, Mari
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245 _aGlobalization and female empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
260 _aEconomic Development and Cultural Change
300 _a71(2), Jan, 2023: p.519-565
520 _aThis paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the job opportunities available to women. Previous work has documented that exporting causally improved working conditions at predominantly female garment factories in Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories (as opposed to nonexporting factories) report significantly higher employment rates and more joint household decision-making; they have lower tolerance for domestic violence and are less likely to be victims of domestic violence. We reach the same conclusions with an instrumental variables strategy that uses distance to the airport as an instrument.- Reproduced
650 _aGlobalization, Female empowerment
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773 _aEconomic Development and Cultural Change
906 _aWOMEN
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