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

By Ingvild Almås, A. Armand, O. Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro. Social Science Research Network, 2016

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (2016, background): “Considering these benefits, it is perhaps not surprising that women are more willing than their partners to sacrifice some household income to receive cash transfers (Almas et al. 2015).”
The Economist as Plumber (2017, background): “For example, if households receive a cash transfer, it may matter whether the woman or the man of the household receives the money (Field et al. 2016; Benhassine et al. 2015; Almås et al. 2015).”