| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After January 31, 2019 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After 1824 |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 1824 |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After 888 control, 468 T1, 468 T2 |
| Field Public Data URL | Before | After https://www.dropbox.com/home/Repositories/Tunisia%20JDE/Repository/public?share_manage_access=false |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After Yes |
| Field Program Files URL | Before | After https://www.dropbox.com/home/Repositories/Tunisia%20JDE/Repository/public |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After April 30, 2021 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After Yes |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After Is it possible to stimulate women’s income-generating activities by relaxing their financial and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands help or hinder the effort? We examine these questions using a three-arm randomized-controlled trial with 2000 women in Tunisia. Women in the two treatment arms were offered a large cash grant (worth USD768 in PPP terms) and a gender-sensitive financial training. In one of the treatment arms, women were additionally encouraged to bring their male partner to the training. Two years after the program, we show that the treatments stimulated women’s income-generating activities, but only when partners were not involved, and with no downstream effects on women’s agency. Independently of partners’ participation, impacts on household living standards were overwhelmingly positive, suggesting that the program was highly cost-effective. Overall, our results highlight the difficulty of stimulating women’s agency in traditional societies, and suggest that involving men in women’s empowerment programs can backfire. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Gazeaud, J., Khan, N., Mvukiyehe, E., & Sterck, O. (2023). With or without him? Experimental evidence on cash grants and gender-sensitive trainings in Tunisia. Journal of Development Economics, 165, 103169. |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387823001256 |