TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Almås, Ingvild
AU  - Armand, Alex
AU  - Attanasio, Orazio
AU  - Carneiro, Pedro
        TI  - Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
        PY  - 2016/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9779
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9779
        AB  - This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia. We match experimental data with a unique policy intervention (CCT) in Macedonia offering poor households cash transfers conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The program randomized whether the transfer was offered to household heads or mothers at municipality level, providing us with an exogenous source of variation in (offered) transfers. We show that women who were offered the transfer reveal a lower willingness to pay, and we show that this is in line with theoretical predictions.
        KW  - empowerment
KW  - cash transfers
KW  - intra-household
KW  - gender
        ER  -