Análisis de las decisiones de pareja en los hogares ecuatorianos en el año 2011

Abstract

This paper analyzes the factors that determine the decision of women about working or studying, what to do with the money they earn or have, the purchase of houses, the purchase of household appliances and social participation, within Ecuadorian households. For this, the National Survey on Family Relations and Gender Violence against Women of the 2011 period is used. Thus, a non-ordered multinomial logistic model is estimated. The results show that a woman who participates in the labor market increases her probability of making decisions and decreases the probability that such decisions are made by a man. Also, it is evident that as the woman's age increases, the probability that she decides to increase. The probability that the decision is taken by the woman increases when she is head of the household, while it is not significant in the probability that the man is the one who decides. On the other hand, the results associated with the years of schooling, the number of children and ethnic self-identification vary depending on the decision analyzed.