Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income?
How cash transfers made to women are used has important implications for models of household behavior and for the design of social programs. In this paper, the authors use the randomized introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to poor women...
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okr-10986-74712021-04-23T14:02:33Z Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income? Schady, Norbert Rosero, José ADULT FEMALES ADULT MALES AVERAGE FOOD SHARE CALORIC REQUIREMENTS CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS COMMUNITY LEVEL CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH GROUP FAMILIES FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD EXPENDITURES FOOD ITEMS FOOD SHARE GENDER HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME ON FOOD INCOME RISES LACK OF INFORMATION LOCAL RADIO MARITAL STATUS NON-FOOD ITEMS NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS NONFOOD EXPENDITURES NUTRITIONAL STATUS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POINTS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR CHILDREN POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION CENSUS POVERTY INDEX POWER RECIPROCITY RELATIVE PRICES RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SCHOOL FEEDING SOCIAL PROGRAMS STANDARD ERROR STANDARD ERRORS URBAN AREAS UTILITY FUNCTION VILLAGES How cash transfers made to women are used has important implications for models of household behavior and for the design of social programs. In this paper, the authors use the randomized introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to poor women in rural Ecuador to analyze the effect of transfers on the food Engel curve. There are two main findings. First, the authors show that households randomly assigned to receive Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH) transfers have a significantly higher food share in expenditures than those that were randomly assigned to the control group. Second, they show that the rising food share among BDH beneficiaries is found among households that have both adult males and females, but not among households that only have adult females. Bargaining power between men and women is likely to be important in mixed-adult households, but not among female-only households, where there are no men to bargain with. Finally, the authors show that within mixed-adult households, program effects are only significant in households in which the initial bargaining capacity of women was likely to be weak. This pattern of results is consistent with an increase in the bargaining power of women in households that received BDH transfers. 2012-06-07T20:49:06Z 2012-06-07T20:49:06Z 2007-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/07/7962412/cash-transfers-made-women-spent-like-other-sources-income http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7471 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4282 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Ecuador |
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ADULT FEMALES ADULT MALES AVERAGE FOOD SHARE CALORIC REQUIREMENTS CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS COMMUNITY LEVEL CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH GROUP FAMILIES FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD EXPENDITURES FOOD ITEMS FOOD SHARE GENDER HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME ON FOOD INCOME RISES LACK OF INFORMATION LOCAL RADIO MARITAL STATUS NON-FOOD ITEMS NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS NONFOOD EXPENDITURES NUTRITIONAL STATUS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POINTS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR CHILDREN POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION CENSUS POVERTY INDEX POWER RECIPROCITY RELATIVE PRICES RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SCHOOL FEEDING SOCIAL PROGRAMS STANDARD ERROR STANDARD ERRORS URBAN AREAS UTILITY FUNCTION VILLAGES |
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ADULT FEMALES ADULT MALES AVERAGE FOOD SHARE CALORIC REQUIREMENTS CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS COMMUNITY LEVEL CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH GROUP FAMILIES FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD EXPENDITURES FOOD ITEMS FOOD SHARE GENDER HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INCOME ON FOOD INCOME RISES LACK OF INFORMATION LOCAL RADIO MARITAL STATUS NON-FOOD ITEMS NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS NONFOOD EXPENDITURES NUTRITIONAL STATUS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POINTS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR CHILDREN POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION CENSUS POVERTY INDEX POWER RECIPROCITY RELATIVE PRICES RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SCHOOL FEEDING SOCIAL PROGRAMS STANDARD ERROR STANDARD ERRORS URBAN AREAS UTILITY FUNCTION VILLAGES Schady, Norbert Rosero, José Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income? |
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How cash transfers made to women are
used has important implications for models of household
behavior and for the design of social programs. In this
paper, the authors use the randomized introduction of an
unconditional cash transfer to poor women in rural Ecuador
to analyze the effect of transfers on the food Engel curve.
There are two main findings. First, the authors show that
households randomly assigned to receive Bono de Desarrollo
Humano (BDH) transfers have a significantly higher food
share in expenditures than those that were randomly assigned
to the control group. Second, they show that the rising food
share among BDH beneficiaries is found among households that
have both adult males and females, but not among households
that only have adult females. Bargaining power between men
and women is likely to be important in mixed-adult
households, but not among female-only households, where
there are no men to bargain with. Finally, the authors show
that within mixed-adult households, program effects are only
significant in households in which the initial bargaining
capacity of women was likely to be weak. This pattern of
results is consistent with an increase in the bargaining
power of women in households that received BDH transfers. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Schady, Norbert Rosero, José |
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Schady, Norbert Rosero, José |
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Schady, Norbert |
| title |
Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income? |
| title_short |
Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income? |
| title_full |
Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income? |
| title_fullStr |
Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income? |
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Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income? |
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are cash transfers made to women spent like other sources of income? |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/07/7962412/cash-transfers-made-women-spent-like-other-sources-income http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7471 |
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