Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
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DOI：
10.1111/ecoj.12517
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Carneiro, Pedro
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作者：
Almas, Ingvild;Armand, Alex;Carneiro, Pedro
本文采用一种新的识别策略来衡量家庭中的权力。我们的战略是引导妇女愿意支付接受现金转移，而不是他们的配偶接受it.We选择的参与者从抽样的妇女谁已经参加了在马其顿的政策干预，提供贫困家庭的现金转移的条件是让他们的孩子上中学。该方案在市一级将转移支付随机分配给户主（通常是男性）或母亲。我们发现，平均而言，获得转移的妇女具有更强的衡量赋权。在此，IV估计证实了该结果。
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.