“Flypaper effects” in transfers targeted to women: Evidence from BRAC's “Targeting the Ultra Poor” program in Bangladesh

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationBangladesh Rural Advancement Committeeen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen_US
cg.coverage.countryBangladeshen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BDen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierAgnes Quisumbing: 0000-0002-5429-1857en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.06.004en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankA Plusen_US
cg.issn0304-3878en_US
cg.journalJournal of Development Economicsen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriENVIRONMENTen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen_US
cg.volume117en_US
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Shalinien_US
dc.contributor.authorAra, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDas, N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorQuisumbing, Agnes R.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-24T13:39:23Zen_US
dc.date.available2015-09-24T13:39:23Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/68309en_US
dc.title“Flypaper effects” in transfers targeted to women: Evidence from BRAC's “Targeting the Ultra Poor” program in Bangladeshen_US
dcterms.abstractMany development interventions target transfers to women. However, little evidence directly explores the “flypaper effects” of whether women retain control over these transfers once within the household and how reallocation of the transfers affects women's empowerment. We study these dynamics in the context of BRAC's randomized CFPR-TUP program in Bangladesh, which provides livestock and training to rural women in “ultra poor” households. Our analysis confirms previous findings that CFPR-TUP increased household asset ownership, but shows complex effects on targeted women. Women appear to retain ownership over transferred livestock, but new investments from mobilized resources are largely owned by men. CFPR-TUP also reduces women's movement outside the home and control over income, consistent with transferred livestock requiring maintenance at home. However, beneficiary women also report “intangible” benefits such as increased social capital and, even with limited mobility, a preference for work inside the home given a hostile environment outside the home.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRoy, S., Ara, J., Das, N. and Quisumbing, A.R. 2015. “Flypaper effects” in transfers targeted to women: Evidence from BRAC's “Targeting the Ultra Poor” program in Bangladesh. Journal of Development Economics 117: 1-19.en_US
dcterms.extentp. 1-19en_US
dcterms.issued2015-11en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/4939en_US
dcterms.subjectintrahousehold relationsen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectinvestmenten_US
dcterms.subjectempowermenten_US
dcterms.subjectenvironmenten_US
dcterms.subjecttargetingen_US
dcterms.subjectassetsen_US
dcterms.subjectlivestocken_US
dcterms.subjectimpact assessmenten_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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