Project description
Encouraging men to improve household welfare
Women and men spend differently. Studies show that women typically invest a higher proportion of their earnings in their families and save more than men do. To promote female empowerment and child welfare, numerous developmental aid programmes allocate resources to women only. In this context, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project IntraHouseDecisions will explore whether this approach overlooks opportunities for men to contribute to the household's welfare and how policies can be adjusted to better combat poverty. The project intends to develop a framework that joins empirical and theoretical findings on intra-household allocations and gender norms in developing countries by incorporating the role of intra-household responsibilities in spouses' financial decisions and collect empirical evidence with a lab-in-the field experiment in Ghana.
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit Grant
Coordinator
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
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