measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman's agency based on the interview, which we treat …

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 …

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 …

reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women …'s propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood relative. Exposure to the reform altered women's preferences in favor of personal … autonomy. Women who are exposed to the reform are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are …

In low- and middle-income countries, differences between men and women in their time use patterns represent a major … paper examines the impact of the 2017 flood in Bangladesh on men's and women's time use patterns and women's empowerment …. Using georeferenced and longitudinal data, we find that the flood decreased women's time spent on domestic work while …

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 …

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 …

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 …