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Valuing control over income and time use: A field experiment in Rwanda

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Title Valuing control over income and time use: A field experiment in Rwanda
 
Creator Hickman, William
Kramer, Berber
Mollerstrom, Johanna
Seymour, Greg
 
Subject gender
women
time use
labour
households
income
household expenditure
family budget
experimentation
 
Description Agricultural development programs often aim to increase women’s incomes and to enhance their control over family resources by offering new work opportunities, but as an unintended negative consequence, these programs may further increase women’s already heavy workloads. By means of a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Rwanda, we elicit men’s and women’s valuations of control over income, time use, and trade-offs between them. We find that women are willing to sacrifice more household income to increase their control over income than their husbands are. However, the magnitude of respondents’ valuations of control over income is low. On the other hand, both women and men place a high value on time, and this relationship does not vary by gender. Consequently, development programs introducing time-saving practices, technologies, and services may have more positive welfare impacts than programs that primarily increase control over monetary resources.
 
Date 2023-03-23
2023-12-22T21:53:52Z
2023-12-22T21:53:52Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Hickman, William; Kramer, Berber; Mollerstrom, Johanna; and Seymour, Greg. 2023. Valuing control over income and time use: A field experiment in Rwanda. ICES Discussion Paper March 2023. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University. https://d101vc9winf8ln.cloudfront.net/documents/46102/original/Valuing_Control_Over_Income_and_Time_Use_A_Field_Experiment_in_Rwanda_by_Hickman_et.al.pdf?1679602724
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135869
https://d101vc9winf8ln.cloudfront.net/documents/46102/original/Valuing_Control_Over_Income_and_Time_Use_A_Field_Experiment_in_Rwanda_by_Hickman_et.al.pdf?1679602724
 
Language en
 
Relation https://rwanda.ifpri.info/2023/01/16/the-value-of-control-versus-the-value-of-time-a-field-experiment-in-rwanda/
ICES Discussion Paper
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Publisher George Mason University