scholarly journals Household Decision Making and Savings Impacts: Further Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nava Ashraf ◽  
Dean S. Karlan ◽  
Wesley Yin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Commitment Savings

Working Women’s Decision-Making Power at Home: Evidence from Four North Indian Urban Clusters

Urbanisation ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 245574712110258
Author(s):  
Megan Maxwell ◽  
Milan Vaishnav
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Shed Light

Do working women enjoy greater levels of human agency? While the theoretical foundations underlying this connection are clear, the empirical evidence is quite mixed. We leverage detailed, new data on intra-household decision-making and labour market behaviour from four north Indian urban clusters to shed light on this question. We find that women who work exercise greater say in important decisions around the home. However, this ‘work advantage’ exhibits significant heterogeneity across decision types, decision-making domains, and definitions of work.

scholarly journals Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines

2009 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 1245-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nava Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Household Savings ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Married Individuals ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Gender Specific

I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. When choices are private, men put money into their personal accounts. When choices are observable, men commit money to consumption for their own benefit. When required to communicate, men put money into their wives' account. These strong treatment effects on men, but not women, appear related more to control than to gender: men whose wives control household savings respond more strongly to the treatment and women whose husbands control savings exhibit the same response. Changes in information and communication interact with underlying control to produce mutable gender-specific outcomes. (JEL D13, D14, J12, J16, O15)

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