Women’s Agency and Women’s Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from India

McKelway, Madeline

doi:10.1257/rct.2399-1.0

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“…They all have in common that the measured concepts are easily understandable. A number of papers draw on generalized self-efficacy scores to construct a proxy for the broader concept of self-confidence (Krishnan and Krutikova, 2013;McKelway, 2018;Roy et al, 2018). In alternative approaches to measuring perceptions, instead of asking for perceptions of general concepts such as financial knowledge, researchers have asked about knowledge on specific, but generalizable, concepts.…”

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Linking Savings Behavior, Confidence and Individual Feedback: A Field Experiment in Ethiopia

2019

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In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as health, education, and agricultural investments. We causally identify a strong increase in savings to a soft commitment device in the form of a moneybox with a regular savings plan. In our randomized field experiment, we also provide personalized feedback consisting of recommendations to self-set saving goals. These recommendations trigger increases in savings of up to 36 percent. In a detailed analysis of the behavioral characteristics driving these results, we find a strong and robust link between financial confidence and savings behavior. In particular, the savings of underconfident individuals are less than 2/3 of the savings of overconfident individuals-an association stronger than other behavioral traits such as risk-lovingness and present-biasedness. Remarkably, the effect of our personalized feedback is particularly strong for underconfident individuals. We discuss possible underlying mechanisms, rule out a set of alternative behavioral explanations, and address crowding-out behavior into other forms of saving. 1

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Linking Savings Behavior, Confidence and Individual Feedback: A Field Experiment in Ethiopia

2019

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“…In addition, more involved, multi-session interventions which target self-esteem and self-efficacy improve sex workers' savings and attendance at health checkups(Ghosal et al 2019) and produce increases in employmentMcKelway (2018). Multisession interventions that resemble psychotherapy improve patience(Blattman, Jamison, and Sheridan 2017) and reduce automatic decision-making(Heller et al 2017), reducing violence and antisocial behavior.…”

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Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?

Haushofer

John

Orkin

2019

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“…Interventions have targeted self-efficacy by trying to change people's beliefs about their capacity to achieve desired outcomes. In India, McKelway (2018) shows that an intensive intervention aimed at generalized self-efficacy increases women's employment in the labour market. Another intervention in India targeting a range of non-cognitive skills including agency and aspirations also raised self-efficacy in adolescents, as well as self-esteem (Krishnan and Krutikova 2013).…”

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Social Networks as Levers of Mobility

Mani¹,

Riley²

2021

Social Mobility in Developing Countries

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This chapter reviews the literature on pathways through which social networks may influence social mobility in developing countries. We find that social networks support members in tangible ways—via access to opportunities for migration, credit, trading relationships, information on jobs, and new technologies—as well as in intangible ways, such as shaping their beliefs, hopes, and aspirations, through role models and peers. Nevertheless, networks can disadvantage non-members, typically the poor and marginalized. Recent evidence suggests a range of policy tools that could help mitigate disadvantages faced by excluded groups: temporary incentives to encourage experimentation into new regions, occupations, or technologies, and role models—real and virtual—to mitigate psychosocial challenges faced by marginalized groups. Targeting large fractions of marginalized groups simultaneously could increase the effectiveness of such policies by leveraging the influence of existing social networks.

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Women’s Agency and Women’s Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from India

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Linking Savings Behavior, Confidence and Individual Feedback: A Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Linking Savings Behavior, Confidence and Individual Feedback: A Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?

Social Networks as Levers of Mobility

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