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

Ingvild Almås, Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio and Pedro Carneiro

Economic Journal, 2018, vol. 128, issue 612, F609-F639

Abstract: This article uses a novel identification strategy to measure power in the household. Our strategy is to elicit women's willingness to pay to receive a cash transfer instead of their spouse receiving it. We selected participants from a sample of women who had already participated in a policy intervention in Macedonia offering poor households cash transfers conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The programme randomised transfers at the municipality level to either household heads (generally a male) or mothers. We show that women who were offered the transfer on average have stronger measured empowerment. Here, IV estimation confirms this result.

Date: 2018
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Working Paper: Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers (2016)
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Working Paper: Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers (2015)
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