Discussion Paper
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into these accounts or into the male household head’s account (the status quo). Women in a random subset of villages were also trained on account use.