-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …

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. …

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 in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with … to relax human capital constraints for women by offering vocational, business and life skills training in 30 villages in … rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …

The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by … contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative … terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by …

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 …

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

microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among … local areas are important. We do find evidence that women invested the grants differently from men. A smaller share of the …

experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of … microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source, women with present-biased preferences are more likely than others to borrow … typical lending mechanisms. -- Time preference ; hyperbolic discounting ; self-control ; loan contracts ; microfinance …