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Leaning in at Home: Women's Promotions and Intra-household Bargaining in Bangladesh

dc.contributor.author Uckat, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-23T16:37:26Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-23T16:37:26Z
dc.date.issued 2023-03-23
dc.description.abstract It is established that entering employment improves a woman's bargaining position in the household. This paper investigates whether a woman's career advancement further improves her intra-household bargaining power. The analysis exploits quasi-random participation in a career promotion program in Bangladesh's garment industry to causally estimate the impact of women's promotion on household decision-making. The findings show that women who participate in the promotion program gain bargaining power as measured by higher expenditures on women (51%) and girls (74%), and on remittances (58%). The promotion-related income effect only partially explains these increases, suggesting that women gain more agency over household income more generally. Further, these new female managers now serve as role models to their staff. The paper finds that the direct effects spill over to women who are quasi-randomly exposed to the new female managers, who also report more say in household decisions. Complementarities between women's positions in the workplace and in the household appear important. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099259503202324609/IDU0f776bf4e0723e0481f09732069b5c938c282
dc.identifier.uri https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39586
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Papers; 10370
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject GENDER AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
dc.subject DECISION MAKING AND POVERTY
dc.subject WOMENS CAREER IMPACT
dc.subject WOMENS AGENCY
dc.subject FEMALE MANAGERS
dc.subject TEXTILE INDUSTRY JOBS
dc.subject FEMALE ROLE MODELS
dc.title Leaning in at Home en
dc.title.subtitle Women's Promotions and Intra-household Bargaining in Bangladesh en
dc.type Working Paper
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.crossref.title Leaning in at Home: Women's Promotions and Intra-household Bargaining in Bangladesh
okr.date.disclosure 2023-03-20
okr.date.lastmodified 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z en
okr.doctype Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099259503202324609/IDU0f776bf4e0723e0481f09732069b5c938c282
okr.guid 099259503202324609
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-10370
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 34024399
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 34024399
okr.identifier.report WPS10370
okr.import.id 231
okr.imported true en
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099259503202324609/pdf/IDU0f776bf4e0723e0481f09732069b5c938c282.pdf en
okr.region.country Bangladesh
okr.topic Gender :: Gender and Economic Policy
okr.topic Gender :: Gender and Social Development
okr.topic Law and Development :: Law and Gender
okr.topic Social Development :: Children and Youth
okr.unit DIME Econ Transformation &Growth (DIME1)
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