Calendrier du 14 septembre 2016
Development Economics Seminar
Du 14/09/2016 de 17:00 à 18:30
Campus jourdan,Bâtiment G, Rez de chaussée, Salle 8
ARMAND Alex (University of Navarra)
Measuring and Changing Control: Women’s Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
écrit avec Ingvild Almas (IIES), Orazio Attanasio (UCL) and Pedro Carneiro (UCL, IFS, CEMMAP)
This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure empowerment, as the women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it, which we apply to 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 (generally a male) or mothers at municipality level. We show that women who were offered the transfer have stronger measured empowerment, which is in line with theoretical predictions from a simple model of household decision making.