On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Field, Erica; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; Schaner, Simone; Moore, Charity Troyer
• 署名单位: Duke University; Yale University; Harvard University; University of Southern California
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20200705
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 2342-2375
• 关键词: Cash; efficient; transfers; marriage; poverty; work

摘要

Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, and direct deposit of public sector wages into their own (versus husbands') accounts. Relative to the accounts only group, women who also received direct deposit and training worked more in public and private sector jobs. The private sector result suggests gender norms initially constrained female employment. Three years later, direct deposit and training broadly liberalized women's own -work-related norms, and shifted perceptions of community norms.