On Her Account: Can Strengthening Women바카라 사이트™s Financial Control Boost Female Labor Supply?
This research is part of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries programme
Abstract
In collaboration with the state government of Madhya Pradesh, we experimentally varied whether women바카라 사이트™s wages from India바카라 사이트™s public workfare program were deposited into female-owned bank accounts instead of into the male household head바카라 사이트™s account (the status quo). This treatment increased women바카라 사이트™s work, both in the program and in the private sector, despite no change in market wages. Treatment effects are concentrated among two groups of women: those who had not previously worked for the program and those whose husbands disapprove of women working. These results are at odds with a model of household behavior in which labor force participation decisions only depend on wages and own-preference for leisure. Instead, we argue that they are consistent with a model in which gender norms internalized by men limit women바카라 사이트™s labor market engagement.
This research is part of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries programme
Citation
Field, E. et al. (2017). Can Strengthening Women바카라 사이트™s Financial Control Boost Female Labor Supply? GLMLIC Working Paper No. 32. Available at: https://g2lm-lic.iza.org/publications/wp/wp32/
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