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We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three … of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously … relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no …
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We deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female microenterprise owners in the Kenyan slum of Dandora, just preceding with the exponential growth of COVID-19 cases. Firm profit, inventory spending, and food expenditures all increase. The transfers simultaneously cause...
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of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …
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Using survey data from Central Kenya, I find that the difference in prices received by female compared to male … in the price gap drives a gender difference in the value added by traders. If women had the same characteristics as men … price as men in the top quartile. Amongst suppliers, the price difference between men and women is significantly more …
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Government of Kenya (GoK) integrated gender in a pronounced way in the design and implementation of the Kenya Agricultural …
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investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya …With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … technology could potentially accelerate this trend. Here, we use survey data of small-scale banana producers in Kenya to …
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