Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path … productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases … women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training …

for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training … programs aimed at fostering domestic skills. Our findings reveal these programs facilitated women's entry into the labor market … participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy. …

While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …

women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative …

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …

2012 and 2016-on domestic violence against women. Diffin- diff and synthetic control estimates suggest that the program … notably increased physical domestic violence against women both at the extensive and intensive margins. Specifically, we find … that the likelihood of physical domestic violence against women in the treated provinces increased by more than 5 …

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … capabilities across a range of dimensions are then developed for some 6000 women and used to estimate a number of propensity score …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …