Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

There is an enormous interest in development interventions aimed at reducing behavioural poverty traps, including by raising women's and girls' aspirations, or future-oriented goals. However, little known about how aspirations influence their gender attitudes, the marriages into which they select involvement intra-household decision-making. We find that women Kyrgyzstan with higher are more likely to espouse egalitarian as husbands, husbands have aspirations. They also live households play a greater role decision-making, spouses agree roles