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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Almas, Ingvild; Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio; Carneiro, Pedro
• 署名单位: Stockholm University; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Navarra; University of London; University College London; University of London; University College London; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12517
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: F609-F639
• 关键词: efficient intrahousehold allocations; spousal control; household; tests

摘要

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.