Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers

Ingvild Almås (), Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio () and Pedro Carneiro
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Ingvild Almås: IIES, Stockholm University
Orazio Attanasio: Yale University

No 9779, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia. We match experimental data with a unique policy intervention (CCT) in Macedonia offering poor households cash transfers conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The program randomized whether the transfer was offered to household heads or mothers at municipality level, providing us with an exogenous source of variation in (offered) transfers. We show that women who were offered the transfer reveal a lower willingness to pay, and we show that this is in line with theoretical predictions.

Keywords: empowerment; cash transfers; intra-household; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J16 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2016-02
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Published - published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F609 - F639

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Journal Article: Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers (2018)
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Working Paper: Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers (2015)
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