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Conditional cash transfers, female bargaining power and parental labour supply
Author(s) -
Novella Rafael,
Ripani Laura,
Vazquez Claudia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3530
Subject(s) - conditional cash transfer , bargaining power , cash transfers , economics , labour supply , labour economics , power (physics) , empirical evidence , cash , child labour , demographic economics , microeconomics , economic growth , macroeconomics , philosophy , chemistry , poverty , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , gold mining
Recent empirical evidence shows that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes do not have an aggregate effect on the adult labour supply. However, little attention has been paid to the role of other intrahousehold dynamics. This paper examines how the parental labour supply response to CCT programmes varies with the bargaining power structure of households. We analyse a randomized experimental CCT design from rural areas of Honduras (PRAF) and found that women with more bargaining power in the household are four percentage points less likely to be employed than other women.