Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Dean Karlan, Nava Ashraf and Wesley Yin

No 28380, Center Discussion Papers from Yale University, Economic Growth Center

Abstract: Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to an individually-held commitment savings product leads to an increase in female decision-making power within the household. We find positive impacts, particularly for women who have below median decision-making power in the baseline, and we find this leads to a shift towards female-oriented durables goods purchased in the household.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2006
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Journal Article: Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (2010)
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Working Paper: Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (2007)
Working Paper: Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (2006)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.28380

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