Reproducibility package for With or Without Him? Experimental Evidence on Gender-Sensitive Cash Grants and Trainings in Tunisia
Overview
Is it possible to stimulate women’s employment by relaxing their financial and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands help or hinder the effort? Using an experiment in Tunisia, this paper shows that providing cash grants and financial training to women stimulates their income generating activities, but only when their partners are not involved. The program did not alter traditional gender roles. Instead, it encouraged employment of other household members and investments in small-scale agriculture and livestock farming — two activities traditionally undertaken by women at home. The impacts on household living standards are overwhelmingly positive, and suggest that the program is highly cost-effective.
Reproducibility Package
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| MIT License | https://opensource.org/license/mit/ |
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| Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank) | https://reproducibility.worldbank.org |
Reproducibility
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Data
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Description
| Author | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Jules Gazeaud | J-PAL MENA, The American University in Cairo | jgazeaud@povertyactionlab.org |
| Nausheen Khan | World Bank | nkhan8@worldbank.org |
| Eric Mvukiyehe | Duke University | eric.mvukiyehe@duke.edu |
| Olivier Sterck | ODID, University of Oxford | olivier.sterck@qeh.ox.ac.uk |
| Agency Name | Role |
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| Sarah Elven | RA |
| Samih Ferrah | RA |
| Joe St Clair | RA |
| Varada Shrotri | RA |
We are grateful to Arthur Alik-Lagrange, Diego Angel-Urdinola, Rabah Arezki, Mahdi Barouni, Simone Bertoli, Anush Bezhanyan, Theophile Bougna, Bruno Crepon, Carlo Del Ninno, Laura Derksen, Alison Fahey, Ugo Gentilini, Xavier Gine, Alvaro Gonzalez, Afef Haddad, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Jesko Hentschel, Marcus Holmlund, Jason Kerwin, Elena Lanchovichina, Daniel Lederman, Arianna Legovini, Florian Leon, John Loeser, Fareeba Mahmood, David McKenzie, Lili Mottaghi, Khalid Ahmed Ali Moheyddeen, Yuko Okamura, Laura Ralston, Aminur Rahman, Imran Rasul, Emma Riley, Lea Rouanet, Tony Verheijen, Jan von der Goltz, Damien de Walque, Nahla Zeitoun, and numerous seminar participants for their inputs and support at various stages of the research. During survey implementation, we were privileged to work with BJKA Consulting, including Samy Kallel (Director General) and an excellent team of enumerators. We are particularly indebted to Samir Ben Zineb for eldwork coordination. Finally, we express our deepest gratitude to all households that participated to our surveys. This research would have not been possible without their collaboration. This impact evaluation study received Institutional Review Board (IRB) clearance from IRB Solutions, under protocol #2020/11/17 and was registered on the AEA RCT Registry under registration number AEARCTR-0007136. Computational reproducibility was veri ed by DIME Analytics.
2022-07
Scope and coverage
| Location | Code |
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| Tunisia | TUN |
Disclaimer
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Access and rights
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| Modified BSD3 | https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/ |
Information on metadata
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
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| Krestel | CK | World Bank |
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