Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment

We use data from a Brazilian social program to investigate the existence of gender bias in intrahousehold allocations of resources. The program makes cash transfers to mothers and pregnant women in poor households. Bureaucratic mistakes, beyond the control of the applicants, have inadvertently exclu...

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Main Authors:	Braido, Luis H.B., Olinto, Pedro, Perrone, Helena
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	MIT Press 2015
Subjects:	conditional cash transfers education poverty infant mortality health eduction household expenditure PROGRESA BA program Bolsa Escola family expenditures Bolsa Alimentação
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21435

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spelling	okr-10986-214352021-04-23T14:04:02Z Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment Braido, Luis H.B. Olinto, Pedro Perrone, Helena conditional cash transfers education poverty infant mortality health eduction household expenditure PROGRESA BA program Bolsa Escola family expenditures Bolsa Alimentação We use data from a Brazilian social program to investigate the existence of gender bias in intrahousehold allocations of resources. The program makes cash transfers to mothers and pregnant women in poor households. Bureaucratic mistakes, beyond the control of the applicants, have inadvertently excluded many households that had applied and were accepted to the program. This unintentional natural experiment is used to identify the impact of an exogenous variation in female nonlabor income over household consumption. We find that program participation led to an increase in food expenditure, but this effect is not due to women being the benefit recipients. 2015-02-12T19:57:47Z 2015-02-12T19:57:47Z 2012-05 Journal Article Review of Economics and Statistics 0034-6535 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21435 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank MIT Press Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean Brazil
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description	We use data from a Brazilian social program to investigate the existence of gender bias in intrahousehold allocations of resources. The program makes cash transfers to mothers and pregnant women in poor households. Bureaucratic mistakes, beyond the control of the applicants, have inadvertently excluded many households that had applied and were accepted to the program. This unintentional natural experiment is used to identify the impact of an exogenous variation in female nonlabor income over household consumption. We find that program participation led to an increase in food expenditure, but this effect is not due to women being the benefit recipients.
format	Journal Article
author	Braido, Luis H.B. Olinto, Pedro Perrone, Helena
author_facet	Braido, Luis H.B. Olinto, Pedro Perrone, Helena
author_sort	Braido, Luis H.B.
title	Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment
title_short	Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment
title_full	Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment
title_fullStr	Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment
title_full_unstemmed	Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment
title_sort	gender bias in intrahousehold allocation : evidence from an unintentional experiment
publisher	MIT Press
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Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment

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