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With or without him? Experimental evidence on gender-sensitive cash grants and trainings in Tunisia

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  • Jules Gazeaud
  • Nausheen Khan
  • Eric Mvukiyehe
  • Olivier Sterck

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Is it possible to stimulate women’s employment by relaxing their financial and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands help or hinder the effort? To examine these questions, we randomly allocated cash grants and financial training to 1,000 poor women in Tunisia. To encourage gender dialogue, a random subset of women could invite their male partner to the training. The cash grants and financial training positively impacted women’s income generating activities, but only for women who had to attend the training alone, suggesting that gender dialogue backfired. The program also reinforced traditional gender roles: it stimulated employment of other household members as well as investments in small-scale agriculture and livestock farming—two activities traditionally undertaken by women at home. Impacts on household living standards are overwhelmingly positive.

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  • Jules Gazeaud & Nausheen Khan & Eric Mvukiyehe & Olivier Sterck, 2022. "With or without him? Experimental evidence on gender-sensitive cash grants and trainings in Tunisia," CSAE Working Paper Series 2022-02, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    • Handle: RePEc:csa:wpaper:2022-02
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    Keywords

    Cash Transfers; Financial Training; Gender Roles; Employment;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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