To defer or differ: Experimental evidence on the role of cash transfers on Nigerian couples’ decision-making

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationStanford Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Banken
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Marylanden
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken
cg.contributor.donorUniversity of Marylanden
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeGender Equality
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierM Mehrab Bakhtiar: 0000-0002-2946-2271
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number2271en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
dc.contributor.authorBakhtiar, M. Mehraben
dc.contributor.authorFafchamps, Marcelen
dc.contributor.authorGoldstein, Markusen
dc.contributor.authorLeonard, Kenneth L.en
dc.contributor.authorPapineni, Sreelakshmien
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-13T20:26:25Zen
dc.date.available2024-09-13T20:26:25Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152230
dc.titleTo defer or differ: Experimental evidence on the role of cash transfers on Nigerian couples’ decision-makingen
dcterms.abstractWe conduct an original lab-in-the-field experiment on the decision–making process of married couples over the allocation of rival and non-rival household goods. The experiment measures individual preferences over allocations and traces the process of deferral, consultation, communication and accommodation by which couples implement these preferences. We find few differences in individual preferences over allocations of goods. However, wives and husbands have strong preferences over process: women prefer to defer decisions to their husbands even when deferral is costly and is not observed by the husband; men rarely defer under any condition. Our study follows a randomized controlled trial that ended a year earlier and gave large cash transfers over eighteen months to half of the women in the study. We estimate the effect of treatment on the demand for agency among women and find that the receipt of cash transfers does not change women’s bargaining process except in a secret condition when the decision to defer is shrouded from her husband. This suggests that the cash transfer to women increases their demand for agency but does not change the intra-household balance of power enough to allow them to express it publicly.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Fafchamps, Marcel; Goldstein, Markus; Leonard, Kenneth L.; and Papineni, Sreelakshmi. 2024. To defer or differ: Experimental evidence on the role of cash transfers on Nigerian couples’ decision-making. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2271. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152230en
dcterms.extent81 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2024-09-13
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132862en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143574en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/126900en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146008en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/137823en
dcterms.subjectbargaining poweren
dcterms.subjectcash transfersen
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen
dcterms.subjectintrahousehold relationsen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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