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: in my own previous experiment in Sri Lanka women given grants saw no increase in business profits, while the recent … randomized trials of microfinance in the Philippines and India also see very little in the way of profit increases when women get … efficient level of capital, which might be very low especially in countries where other labor market options for women are …
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Using an unusually comprehensive dataset from rural Ethiopia, we look for systematic relationships between bargaining power and various dimensions of intrahousehold welfare. Our results confrm some of the results previously found in the literature. We find that the relative nutrition of spouses...
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Empirical work in labour economics has focused on rent sharing as an explanation for the observed correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested. Using a unique panel data set for four...
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