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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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 …

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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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A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria : how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment

Basu, Kaushik (contributor); Felkey, Amanda J. (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...

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Bride price and fertility decisions : evidence from rural Senegal

Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Wagner, Natascha - 2013

women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …

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Increasing women's empowerment: implications for family welfare

Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; O'Sullivan, Michael - 2021

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 …) increases empowerment through agency and achievements, with no impact on access to resources. We use these interventions to test …

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Do constraints on women worsen child deprivations? : framework, measurement, and evidence from India

Posso, Alberto; Smith, Stephen C.; Ferrone, Lucia - 2019

This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i) domestic physcial and psychological abuse, (ii) low...

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