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The relationship between religion and livelihood activities of women: Empirical evidence from the Yilo and Lower Manya Krobo Districts of Eastern Ghana by Ayifah, Emmanuel; Romm, Aylit Tina; Kollamparambil, Umakrishnan is a Economics, Econometrics and Finance article available to read on EtoBox.

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The study examines the effect of religious affiliation on livelihood activity choice amongst a sample of 1209 women in the Yilo and Lower Manya Krobo Districts of Ghana. We attempt to disentangle the effect religion would have through its effect on risk preferences, from the effect it would have due to creation of social capital or the effect of clustering due to social identity. We find evidence that there is a strong positive social capital or social identity effect of being Catholic, Pentecostal or Protestant when it comes to farming. This effect is also positive for Protestant and Catholic women for wage employment. This social capital and social identity effect is significantly negative for Catholic, Pentecostal and Protestant women in the case of petty retailing. Women who are willing to take risk are more likely to be in farming and less likely to be wage employed than risk averse women. However, the effect of risk aversion as a result of being Catholic, Protestant or Pentecostal only seems to have a negative effect in the case of farming. The risk aversion effect does not appear to act through religious affiliation when it comes to wage employment. It is recommended that an

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Author

Ayifah, Emmanuel; Romm, Aylit Tina; Kollamparambil, Umakrishnan

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0275-5319)

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)