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Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? The authors develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind...
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Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage and parenthood bring substantial changes in time...
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Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …
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This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other...
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Many key development outcomes depend on women's ability to negotiate favorable intrahousehold allocations of resources. Yet it has been difficult to clearly identify which policies can increase women's bargaining power and result in better outcomes. This paper reviews both the analytical...
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Conditional cash transfers are being heralded as effective tools against the intergenerational transmission of poverty. There is substantial evidence on the positive effects of these transfers. Analysts are only now beginning to investigate the indirect effects these programs generate. This...
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This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...
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transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly … health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household …. Cash transfers to fathers also yield relatively more household investment in livestock, cash crops, and improved housing …
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This paper evaluates the impact of access to credit from banks and other financial institutions on household welfare in … Mauritania. Micro-level data from a 2014 household survey are used to evaluate the relationship between credit access, a range of … household characteristics, and welfare indicators. To address potential endogeneity issues, the household isolation level is …
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of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places …? (both rural and urban) below the district level. The analysis disentangles the contributions household characteristics and … locations make to labor earnings, proxied by nominal household expenditure per capita. The paper shows that one-third of the …
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