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Measuring women's empowerment in Rwanda
Musonera, Abdou; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
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 … spouses. Variables of sources of empowerment such as education and media exposure were found to have a net positive …
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Measuring and changing control : women's empowerment and targeted transfers
Almås, Ingvild; Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; … - 2016
This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453436
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The city as a self-help book : the psychology of urban promises
Cardoso, Rodrigo V.; Meijers, Evert J.; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017
Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641466
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Reforming the financial incentives of the welfare system
Card, David E. - 2000
This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336870
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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339681
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178514
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Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment : evidence from a large randomized control trial
Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Biroli, Pietro; … - 2017
We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting … evaluate its long-run effects. We find that the intervention increased women’s financial empowerment, increasing their control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770420
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Women's political participation and intrahousehold empowerment : evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring
Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine; Champeaux, Hugues - 2018
pre-existing trends in empowerment. It is also robust to alternative treatment definitions and confirmed by triple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865179
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Empowering women : the effect of schooling on young women's knowledge and use of contraception
Andalón, Mabel; Williams, Jenny; Grossman, Michael - 2014
Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236463
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530133