Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt
NOTE: Revised December 2021 Women’s control over decision-making within their family, particularly regarding the use of household income, can play an important and long-lasting role in shaping their well-being and that of their children. Cash transfer programs often target women in order to increase...
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| author | El-Enbaby, Hoda Gilligan, Daniel O. Karachiwalla, Naureen Kassim, Yumna Kurdi, Sikandra |
| author_browse | El-Enbaby, Hoda Gilligan, Daniel O. Karachiwalla, Naureen Kassim, Yumna Kurdi, Sikandra |
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| description | NOTE: Revised December 2021 Women’s control over decision-making within their family, particularly regarding the use of household income, can play an important and long-lasting role in shaping their well-being and that of their children. Cash transfer programs often target women in order to increase their control over household resources. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of this approach is mixed and suggests the importance of local context. We present evidence on the effect of cash transfers on women’s control over decision-making in the MENA region, where little evidence is available and where cultural norms around women’s roles differ from more-studied regions. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we identify the impact of Egypt’s “Takaful” national cash transfer program on women’s control over decision-making and labor supply. Receiving cash transfers mostly reduced women’s reported ability to influence household decisions, particularly regarding child healthcare. The loss of control over decision-making was greater for women with less than primary education. Other effects of the program include a decline in women’s employment and an increase in men’s involvement in spheres of decision-making usually controlled by women. These results are robust to changes in model specification. We present suggestive evidence from mediation analysis that the negative effects on women’s control over decision-making was directly related to these declines in employment and increase in men’s involvement in female spheres. The negative findings are not wholly supported by complementary qualitative work in which women reported more positive perceptions of the program’s impacts. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1465522025-11-06T07:25:43Z Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt El-Enbaby, Hoda Gilligan, Daniel O. Karachiwalla, Naureen Kassim, Yumna Kurdi, Sikandra income gender households employment labour household income decision making cash transfers workforce women NOTE: Revised December 2021 Women’s control over decision-making within their family, particularly regarding the use of household income, can play an important and long-lasting role in shaping their well-being and that of their children. Cash transfer programs often target women in order to increase their control over household resources. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of this approach is mixed and suggests the importance of local context. We present evidence on the effect of cash transfers on women’s control over decision-making in the MENA region, where little evidence is available and where cultural norms around women’s roles differ from more-studied regions. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we identify the impact of Egypt’s “Takaful” national cash transfer program on women’s control over decision-making and labor supply. Receiving cash transfers mostly reduced women’s reported ability to influence household decisions, particularly regarding child healthcare. The loss of control over decision-making was greater for women with less than primary education. Other effects of the program include a decline in women’s employment and an increase in men’s involvement in spheres of decision-making usually controlled by women. These results are robust to changes in model specification. We present suggestive evidence from mediation analysis that the negative effects on women’s control over decision-making was directly related to these declines in employment and increase in men’s involvement in female spheres. The negative findings are not wholly supported by complementary qualitative work in which women reported more positive perceptions of the program’s impacts. 2019-12-23 2024-06-21T09:07:29Z 2024-06-21T09:07:29Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146552 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147204 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147205 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147206 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295964 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute El-Enbaby, Hoda; Gilligan, Daniel; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Kassim, Yumna; and Kurdi, Sikandra. 2019. Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt. MENA RP Working Paper 25. Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146552 |
| spellingShingle | income gender households employment labour household income decision making cash transfers workforce women El-Enbaby, Hoda Gilligan, Daniel O. Karachiwalla, Naureen Kassim, Yumna Kurdi, Sikandra Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt |
| title | Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt |
| title_full | Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt |
| title_fullStr | Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt |
| title_short | Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt |
| title_sort | cash transfers and women s control over decision making and labor supply in egypt |
| topic | income gender households employment labour household income decision making cash transfers workforce women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146552 |
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