women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

arbitrary division of ancestral ethnic homelands across countries with different legal origins, we directly compare women among … the same ethnic group living in civil law countries and common law countries. We find that, on average, women in common … norms do not promote women’s rights and empowerment. In particular, we find little effect in bride price societies …

This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women … Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are …