Intra-household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Bérgolo, Marcelo; Galván, Estefaní­a

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.10.030

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“…The finding that moving to or remaining in an informal job can be a relevant channel of adjustment to gender norms in middle‐income countries is consistent with studies that show that in this context of weaker labour market institutions, the woman is the household member most likely to react on the informality margin (e.g. Galiani and Weinschelbaum 2012; Bergolo and Galván 2018). The mechanism that this study suggests is that as informal jobs are less well‐paid and less regulated than registered jobs, they would allow women to remain in the labour market but working fewer hours, compatible with their secondary‐earner role at home, but with poorer working conditions.…”

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Gender Identity and Quality of Employment

Galván

2021

Economica

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Studies for high-income countries have shown that the prescription that a man should earn more than his wife holds back women's performance in the labour market, evidencing the importance of gender identity norms in explaining persistent gender gaps. Using data on couples in Uruguay for the period 1986-2016, this paper analyses behavioural responses to the male breadwinner norm, investigating the role of job informality as an additional mechanism of response to gender norms. My results show that the higher the probability that the wife earns more than her husband, the less likely she is to engage in a formal job, providing evidence that gender norms affect not only the quantity of labour supply (i.e. labour force participation and hours of work), but also the quality of jobs in which women are employed. Moreover, I also identify meaningful effects of the norm on men: those with lower potential earnings than their wives react to the norm by self-selecting into better-paid formal jobs. Not considering these effects would lead to underestimating the consequences of gender norms on labour market inequalities in the context of developing countries.

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Gender Identity and Quality of Employment

Galván

2021

Economica

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“…In applications, a hybrid of both approaches is used (see, for instance, Pinotti, 2017;Bergolo and Galván, 2018): τ is estimated from equation (1a) with T as an instrument for D when using the polynomial functional form in (2) for f (X ) and (X ) but conditional on −h ≤ X ≤ h. Under this approach, the estimation of τ and its standard error can be straightforwardly obtained from the output of an IV regression.…”

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“…This is a condition for the satisfactory identification of the treatment effect of interest. In addition, following a standard empirical practice (see, inter alia, Amarante, Manacorda,Miguel, & Vigorito, 2016;Pinotti, 2017;Bergolo & Galván, 2018), we run theMcCrary (2008) test and could not reject the hypothesis of continuity of the running variable around the cutoff point. This result indicates that the possible manipulation of the IFH is not able to explain the discontinuity in the probability of using Juntos either.…”

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Conditional cash transfers, spillovers, and informal health care: Evidence from Peru

2019

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The use of low-quality informal health-care providers (IHCPs) is still prominent in developing countries despite the efforts of their governments to expand institutional services. The use of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become instrumental in encouraging the use of formal health services, but little is known about their direct effect on the use of IHCPs. We use a large survey of rural households and a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effects of the Peruvian CCT program on the demand for IHCP. We find a sizeable reduction in the use of IHCPs not only in targeted but also in non-targeted members of treated households. This finding indicates the existence of spillover effects within the household. We also provide evidence that beyond the direct increase in income, the availability of better information about institutional services is a potential mechanism that drives these effects. We also find a corresponding improvement in the self-perception of health status. Our results are robust to a number of sensitivity analyses.JEL Classification : C21, I18, O17

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“…But FLFP could also increase as conditional cash transfers can increase women's decision-making power in the household and their sense of autonomy (Bergolo and Galvan, 2018). Family-friendly policies, such as parental leave and childcare policies, can promote FLFP.…”

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Women in Paid Employment: A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala

Almeida¹,

Viollaz²

2022

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Intra-household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Cited by 31 publications

References 59 publications

Gender Identity and Quality of Employment

Gender Identity and Quality of Employment

Conditional cash transfers, spillovers, and informal health care: Evidence from Peru

Women in Paid Employment: A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala

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