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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationBangladesh Rural Advancement Committeeen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierAgnes Quisumbing: 0000-0002-5429-1857
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.06.004en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA Plus
cg.issn0304-3878en
cg.journalJournal of Development Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriENVIRONMENTen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen
cg.volume117en
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Shalinien
dc.contributor.authorAra, J.en
dc.contributor.authorDas, N.en
dc.contributor.authorQuisumbing, Agnes R.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-24T13:39:23Zen
dc.date.available2015-09-24T13:39:23Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/68309
dc.title“Flypaper effects” in transfers targeted to women: Evidence from BRAC's “Targeting the Ultra Poor” program in Bangladeshen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
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
dcterms.extentp. 1-19en
dcterms.issued2015-11
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/4939en
dcterms.subjectintrahousehold relationsen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectinvestmenten
dcterms.subjectempowermenten
dcterms.subjectenvironmenten
dcterms.subjecttargetingen
dcterms.subjectassetsen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjectimpact assessmenten
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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