Coupling Labor Supply Decisions: An Experiment in India

Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline

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“…We conjecture that the second explanation is more plausible in this context, given strong gender norms and the difficulty for women to hide income. This interpretation is in line with the model of Lowe and McKelway (2021), which assumes that intra-household decision rights are not clearly delineated, and that interventions that make household decision-making more joint can give "veto power" to the spouse.…”

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“…Consistent with e.g., Field et al (2010), Bertrand et al (2015), and Bursztyn et al (2017), our analysis shows that tradition can shape women's opportunities and interfere with programs aiming at stimulating women's employment. Third, our paper relates to the literature on intra-household dynamics and information asymmetry (see e.g., Ashraf 2009, Castilla and Walker 2013, Ashraf et al 2014, Jakiela and Ozier 2016, Bulte et al 2018, Lowe and McKelway 2021. In line with Field et al (2021), our analysis shows that involving men in programs that target women may backfire.…”

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With or without him? Experimental Evidence on Gender-Sensitive Cash Grants and Trainings in Tunisia

Gazeaud¹,

Khan²,

Mvukiyehe³

et al. 2022

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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With or without him? Experimental Evidence on Gender-Sensitive Cash Grants and Trainings in Tunisia

Gazeaud¹,

Khan²,

Mvukiyehe³

et al. 2022

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…Such interventions are common (see, e.g., Bursztyn et al, 2020;Bandiera et al, 2020;Lowe and McKelway, 2021;Ashraf et al, 2022) and have a potential for affecting IPV incidence if they address important household decisions, potentially sparking disagreements and conflict between spouses.…”

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Keeping the peace whilst getting your way: Information, persuasion and intimate partner violence

Anderberg,

Cassidy,

Janssens

et al. 2024

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We study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by women only, men only, or both, relevant to a high-stakes joint household decision. We model communication between spouses as Bayesian persuasion where disagreements elevate the risk of IPV. Our framework predicts that IPV will be lower when only one spouse is informed, compared to when both are, as the opportunity for persuasion by one spouse leads to more agreement. To test the model's predictions we leverage an existing randomized controlled trial of an edutainment intervention addressing child marriage decisions for girls in rural Pakistan, targeted at men, women, or both. Our empirical findings confirm the prediction that the likelihood of IPV is highest when men and women are jointly targeted. Due to systematic gender differences in preferences, our persuasion model further predicts that marriage delays are largest when targeting men alone or jointly with women and smallest when targeting women alone, predictions that are also confirmed in the data.

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“…Yet, in many contexts, men remain the dominant decision-makers in households and communities. Hence, male preferences and beliefs may remain the binding constraint for promoting change in household outcomes (Ashraf et al, 2014;Bernhardt et al, 2018;Bursztyn et al, 2020;Cassidy et al, 2021;Lowe and McKelway, 2021). Targeting women only, without changing men's preferences, may even have perverse impacts -such as increasing intimate partner violence, or worsening marriage market conditions (Bloch and Rao, 2002;Bobonis et al, 2013;Buchmann et al, 2021).…”

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Father of the bride, or steel magnolias? Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage

Cassidy¹,

Dam²,

Janssens³

et al. 2022

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Interventions that aim to change outcomes for women and children typically target women. Yet in contexts where men are the dominant decision-makers, male preferences and beliefs may remain the binding constraint. We ask -when we target men, women or both, with the same intervention in the same context -how their information and beliefs about private and social returns, versus their power to change household outcomes, trade off. We conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan. Our treatment arms target men and boys, women and girls, or both. We find that targeting men, or both genders jointly, significantly reduces child marriage of girls in targeted households. Underlying this, we show that whenever men are treated, they focus on private returns to the household; whenever women are treated, they focus on both private and social returns; and only when both genders are treated jointly, does the focus on social returns also become salient to men.

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Coupling Labor Supply Decisions: An Experiment in India

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

With or without him? Experimental Evidence on Gender-Sensitive Cash Grants and Trainings in Tunisia

With or without him? Experimental Evidence on Gender-Sensitive Cash Grants and Trainings in Tunisia

Keeping the peace whilst getting your way: Information, persuasion and intimate partner violence

Father of the bride, or steel magnolias? Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage

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