| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Trial Status | Before on_going | After completed |
| Field Trial End Date | Before September 01, 2018 | After October 07, 2018 |
| Field Last Published | Before August 28, 2017 03:51 PM | After March 03, 2019 02:28 PM |
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After October 10, 2017 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After 177 meeting groups, 927 households |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After No |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 1,022 women |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After Efficacy intervention: 88 meeting groups assigned to treatment and 89 to control. Intra-household opposition intervention (cross-randomized): 463 households assigned to treatment and 464 to control. |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After No |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After October 07, 2018 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After No |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After Women's employment is low in many developing countries. I test whether aspects of women's internal psychology constrain women's employment in India. I offer an intervention to increase generalized self-efficacy (GSE), or beliefs in own ability to attain desired outcomes. The effect on employment will depend on women's external realities; in particular, beliefs in ability may not affect employment if women do not actually have the ability to overcome opposition from their family members. I therefore cross-randomize the promotion of a women's employment opportunity to women's family members. The GSE intervention alone produces large and persistent increases in employment. The promotion intervention alone produces similar effects but the combination of the two produces no additional gain. Channels data suggest the GSE intervention works by leading women to exert effort to reach desired employment outcomes. These results suggest there exist internal constraints to women's employment in India. In a second experiment, I investigate why these internal constraints exist. I hypothesize that the typical economic experiences of women in my setting, and exclusion from the labor market in particular, produce low GSE. To test the causal effect of employment on GSE, I randomly assign job offers amongst women that enroll in an employment opportunity. Indeed, women who received a job offer have significantly higher GSE several months later. Taken together, these results provide important insights for understanding links between psychology and economics. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After McKelway, Madeline. 2018. "Women's Self-Efficacy and Women's Employment: Experimental Evidence from India." Working Paper. |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://economics.mit.edu/files/16014 |