Gender Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation : Evidence from an Unintentional Experiment

Braido, Luis H.B. ; Olinto, Pedro ; Perrone, Helena

MIT Press

关键词: conditional cash transfers;    education;    poverty;    infant mortality;    health eduction;   

DOI  :  10.1162/REST_a_00205

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

We use data from a Brazilian social program to investigate the existence of gender bias in intrahousehold allocations of resources. The program makes cash transfers to mothers and pregnant women in poor households. Bureaucratic mistakes, beyond the control of the applicants, have inadvertently excluded many households that had applied and were accepted to the program. This unintentional natural experiment is used to identify the impact of an exogenous variation in female nonlabor income over household consumption. We find that program participation led to an increase in food expenditure, but this effect is not due to women being the benefit recipients.