Household decision-making power and the mental health and well-being of women initiating antiretroviral treatment in Oromia, Ethiopia

PurposeThis study examines whether financial literacy is a relevant factor that determines authority in household financial decision-making, an area that is often viewed as boring, difficult and full of uncertainties. Cognitive ability and personality traits are also included as additional explanatory variables.Design/methodology/approachThe logistic regression technique was applied using a sample of more than 2,300 microfinance institutions' clients in three provinces in Indonesia.FindingsThis study finds that financial literacy correlates positively with authority in household financial decision-making only among men. This does not mean that financial literacy is irrelevant for women's agency, since the skill might be important for authorities in other decision-making areas, including those outside households. Meanwhile, the relationship between cognitive ability and household financial decision-making authority is more universal.Research limitations/implicationsThis study does not collect information on the levels of financial literacy of other household members and does not capture respondents' perceptions of household financial decision-making.Social implicationsThe overall low level of financial literacy calls for the need for more targeted efforts to address this issue by policymakers. Education policy should also be designed to improve cognitive ability, as this ability is important for human agency and well-being.Originality/valueHousehold decision-making has received significant attention in the literature. Authority in household decision-making is important because it represents a person's agency and has a profound impact on well-being. To the best of author's knowledge, studies on the importance of skills in household financial decision-making are very limited.

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Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.104.7.2210 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 104 (7) ◽

pp. 2210-2237 ◽

Cited By ~ 99

Author(s):

Nava Ashraf ◽

Erica Field ◽

Jean Lee

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Experimental Study ◽

Family Planning ◽

Moral Hazard ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Family Planning Services ◽

Household Decision ◽

Household Decision Making ◽

Access To Contraception

We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard since most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives alone or with their husbands, we find that women given access with their husbands were 19 percent less likely to seek family planning services, 25 percent less likely to use concealable contraception, and 27 percent more likely to give birth. However, women given access to contraception alone report a lower subjective well-being, suggesting a psychosocial cost of making contraceptives more concealable. (JEL C78, D12, D82, I31, J13, J16, O15)

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Effect of Women’s Role on Household Decision Making on Institutional Delivery of the recent Child in Nepal

Journal of Management and Development Studies ◽

10.3126/jmds.v26i0.24941 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 51-61

Author(s):

Ramesh Adhikari

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Institutional Delivery ◽

Comparison Group ◽

Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

Maternal Health Services ◽

Household Decision ◽

Household Decision Making ◽

The Family ◽

Women's Role

Nepalese women are behind than men in many areas, such as educational attainment, participation in decision-making and health service utilization, all of which have an impact on reproductive health outcomes. This paper explores effect of women's role on household decision making on institutional delivery of the child in Nepal Data as drawn from the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2011. The analysis is confined to women who had given birth in the five years preceding the survey (n=4,148). The net effect of women’s role on household decision making on institutional delivery after controlling for the effect of other predictors has been measured through multivariate logistic regression analysis. The findings indicate that institutional delivery was still very low in Nepal. Only two in five of the women (40%) had delivered their last child with health facilities. Notably, higher level of women’s role on household decision was associated with higher level of institutional delivery [adjusted odds ratio (aOR=1.20)] than their comparison group. It can be concluded that programs should aim to increase use of maternal health services by improving women’s role on household decision making so that the overall well-being of the family can be maintained and enhanced.

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Promoting mental health and well-being for children and young people

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e427052008-006 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Young People ◽

Well Being ◽

Children And Young People ◽

Health And Well Being

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Mental Health and Well-being in Northern Ontario, 2002

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e509012013-090 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Connie Nelson ◽

Jungwee Park

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Northern Ontario ◽

Health And Well Being

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Times of change and opportunity: Toward a psychological model of mental health and well-being

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e530962014-001 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Kinderman

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Model ◽

Health And Well Being

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A positive psychology study and intervention on the well-being of French PhD students in biology

10.31234/osf.io/rht94 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Gabriel Marais ◽

Rebecca Shankland ◽

Pascale Haag ◽

Robin Fiault ◽

Bridget Juniper

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Positive Psychology ◽

Large Fraction ◽

Reference Sample ◽

Well Being ◽

Attrition Rates ◽

Human Costs ◽

The Uk ◽

And Control ◽

Health And Well Being

In France, little data are available on mental health and well-being in academia, and nothing has been published about PhD students. From studies abroad, we know that doing a PhD is a difficult experience resulting in high attrition rates with significant financial and human costs. Here we focused on PhD students in biology at university Lyon 1. A first study aimed at measuring the mental health and well-being of PhD students using several generalist and PhD-specific tools. Our results on 136 participants showed that a large fraction of the PhD students experience abnormal levels of stress, depression and anxiety, and their mean well-being score is significantly lower than that of a British reference sample. French PhD student well-being is specifically affected by career uncertainty, perceived lack of progress in the PhD and perceived lack of competence, which points towards possible cultural differences of experiencing a PhD in France and the UK. In a second study, we carried out a positive psychology intervention. Comparing the scores of the test and control groups showed a clear effect of the intervention on reducing anxiety. We discuss our results and the possible future steps to improve French PhD students’ well-being.

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