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

By Nava Ashraf, Dean S. Karlan, Wesley Yin. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework: (2011, background): “Commitment savings products, whether through individual or group accounts, may be ways of protecting women’s savings (Ashraf, Karlan, and Yin 2010).”
Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves (2013, background): “Other recent studies of technology adoption typically focus on one demand factor at a time, such as price (Kremer & Miguel, 2007; Ashraf et al., 2008; Cohen & Dupas, 2010), the role of social networks (Conley & Udry, 2001; Kremer & Miguel, 2007; Oster & Thornton, 2009; BenYishay & Mobarak, 2013),…”
The Cost of Convenience? (2017, unknown): “Overall, my results add to a growing literature that studies the use of formal bank accounts by low-income individuals in developing countries (Ashraf et al. 2006; Ashraf et al. 2010; Brune et al. 2013; Dupas and Robinson 2013; Prina 2013).”
Commitments to save: a field experiment in rural Malawi (2011, background): “5 As a follow-up to Ashraf, Karlan, and Yin (2006), Ashraf, Karlan, and Yin (2010) show impacts of commitment account offers on female empowerment in the same Philippine experimental sample.”
Thinking Inside the Box: A Closer Look at Financial Inclusion and Household Income (2019, background): “We hypothesise that the underlying mechanism through which financial inclusion improves income is by: (1) improving access to transaction and saving accounts and payment facilities, which increases savings, empowers women, and encourages investment and consumption (Ashraf et al., 2010; Dupas & Robin”
Financial inclusion and poverty: a tale of forty-five thousand households (2020, background): “Beyond insurance, the effects of access to bank accounts suggest that improving access to various accounts including savings accounts empowers poor households and encourages investments in human capital that can help with poverty reduction (Ashraf, Karlan, and Yin 2010).”
Does Women’s Land Ownership Promote Their Empowerment? Empirical Evidence from Nepal (2016, background): “See, for example, Allendorf (2007), Anderson and Eswaran (2009), Ashraf et al. (2010), Basu and Koolwal (2005), Kishor and Gupta (2004), Kishor and Subaiya (2008), Mahmud, Shah, and Becker (2012), Samarakoon and Parinduri (2015), and Weber and Ahmad (2014) for recent studies that have used…”
The foundations of financial inclusion : understanding ownership and use of formal accounts (2012, background): “Having a bank account increases savings (Aportela, 1999), female empowerment (Ashraf et al., 2010), and consumption and productive investment of entrepreneurs (Dupas and Robinson, 2009).”
Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works? (2014, background): “…and control over assets of less empowered women with below-median reported household decision-making power increased as result of commitment savings, where deposits could only be withdrawn after a savings goal was reached; there was no similar effect for men (Ashraf, Karlan, and Yin 2006, 2010).”