Tag
social_norms
4 findings
Policy & public sectorSocio-Cultural Home-Location ConstraintsOffering start-up loans and training to female microentrepreneurs in Pakistan increased initial business creation attempts, but because social norms and domestic preferences restricted operation to residential homes, businesses failed to generate sufficient income, resulting in no net rise in female business ownership overall.RCTBehaviour & psychologyPrescriptive-Descriptive Norm Disconnect ActivationPro-transgender participants made supportive statements 2.5 times more frequently than anti-transgender statements during discussions, relying on moral arguments regarding rights and equality. Participating in group discussion raised participants' estimates of their neighbors' willingness to hire transgender workers by 24 percentage points.RCTDevelopmentSanskritization Constraint on Female Economic EmancipationUpper-caste Hindu women face 50% more social restrictions than Scheduled Caste women (index score 0.75 vs 0.48), whereas lower-caste Scheduled Caste women exhibit higher baseline business ownership (31% vs 27%) and higher financial autonomy due to necessity-driven earnings.Observational StudySociety & networksSocial Norm Mobility IndexIndex measurements established that Muslim women faced the most severe mobility restrictions, followed by upper-caste Hindu women, whereas scheduled-caste Hindu women faced the least severe restrictions. Business training with peer support was most effective among women facing severe social restrictions.RCT