Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

被引：204

作者：

Ashraf, Nava ^{[1
]}

Karlan, Dean ^{[2
]}

Yin, Wesley ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Business, Boston, MA 02163 USA

[2] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT USA

[3] Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2010年 / 38卷 / 03期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

savings; microfinance; female empowerment; household decision making; commitment; WOMENS EMPOWERMENT; ALLOCATION;

D O I：

10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.05.010

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

Female "empowerment has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieve other development goals Microfinance in particular has often been argued but not without controversy to be a tool for empowering women Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to and marketing of an individually held commitment savings product lead to an increase in female decision-making power within the household We find positive impacts, particularly for women who have below median decision-making power in the baseline, and we find this leads to a shift toward female-oriented durables goods purchased in the household (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved

引用

页码：333 / 344

页数：12

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