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To Be or Not to Be a Member of a Primary Co-operative in Brazil: Any Difference in Household Decision-Making and Gender Equality?

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  • Francesco Burchi
  • Sara Vicari

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The paper investigates the effect of co-operative membership on people's capability to participate in household decision-making and on domestic gender relations. Our hypothesis is that the democratisation process activated in genuine co-operatives, authentic member-owned forms of business, may then be transferred to the household. We tested this in the "Coppalj" co-operative in Brazil, where we collected primary data. Both the techniques employed, regression and propensity score matching, support our hypotheses in a number of life domains. Though results vary slightly according to the domain and the outcome indicator, they show that members of the co-operative have a statistically significant higher capability to participate in decision-making and to share their decisions with partners than non-members (the control group). We then triangulated these quantitative outcomes with qualitative ones: the latter confirm an improvement in gender relations between co-operators and their partners, highlighting the fundamental role of Coppalj in fostering gender equality.

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  • Francesco Burchi & Sara Vicari, 2014. "To Be or Not to Be a Member of a Primary Co-operative in Brazil: Any Difference in Household Decision-Making and Gender Equality?," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(3), pages 343-364, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:oxdevs:v:42:y:2014:i:3:p:343-364
    DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2014.905523
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    2. Myers, Emily & Heckert, Jessica, 2025. "Women’s economic empowerment and leadership: Examining an intervention for smallholder farmers delivered via farmer producer organizations in Guatemala using qualitative methods," IFPRI working papers 175619, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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