Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284230 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 23/04
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
We exploit novel data collected within a randomized controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that - as long as the wife is involved in household decision-making - the intra-household differences in perceptions we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife has higher benefit perception, whereas successful conversion to a toilet depends on differences in monetary cost perceptions. The estimated effects are consistent with the predictions of a model of intra-household decision-making.
Subjects: 
sanitation
perceptions
intra-household bargaining
microfinance
gender
JEL: 
O16
J16
D14
I12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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