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On Her Account: Can Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Boost Female Labor Supply? With Simone Schaner
On Her Account: Can Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Boost Female Labor Supply? With Simone Schaner
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Length:
76 minutes
Released:
Dec 1, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
Across the world, the increasing use of digital payments for government to person transactions for social programs has provided an entry point for the world’s poor into the formal financial sector. This phenomenon begs the question: how can governments best leverage this opportunity to enable economic empowerment for women? This seminar explores research that uses a randomized controlled trial to assess how financial inclusion coupled with targeted benefit payments impact women's labor force participation and economic welfare in India.
Simone Schaner, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
Simone Schaner, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
Released:
Dec 1, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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