Taking Control
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Washington, DC: World Bank
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Social and familial financial
transfers are common in low-income communities and have
positive social effects. To address this challenge, the
authors designed and implemented a financial innovation to
lower redistributive pressure among female cashew-processing
workers: a blocked savings account into which gains in
workers’ earnings get transferred. Take-up of the private
account was substantially higher at 60 percent, compared to
14 percent for the non-private account. Being offered a
private account increased workers’ attendance by 9.7 percent
and earnings by 11.4 percent. The estimates imply that
workers face a 9-23 percent social tax rate, and that the
welfare benefits of informal redistribution may come at the
cost of depressing labor supply and productivity.
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AFRICA GENDER POLICY, GENDER INNOVATION LAB, WOMEN AND AGRICULTURE, WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS, WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT, WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS