We are excited to welcome Ingvild Almas of NHH Norweigan School of Economics for this week's Department Seminar.

 

Ingvild's talk is entitled "The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence from India (w/ Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle)".

Abstract:

Women are the primary recipients of many welfare programs around the world. This gendered targeting is backed by claims that women make better consumption choices than men, but the empirical evidence is scarce. We report from an experiment designed to study the effect of such gendered targeting: in each household, weekly cash transfers were randomly allocated to a man or a woman. We combine the randomized transfers with detailed financial diaries to measure the households' economic decisions. Our precise estimates suggest no difference in consumption, saving or nutrition in households with female rather than male recipients.