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Autocrats often control social organizations to disseminate their ideology. We examine the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990), where conservative military forces controlled female social organizations to promote traditional roles for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with...
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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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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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This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification …
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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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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 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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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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pre-existing trends in empowerment. It is also robust to alternative treatment definitions and confirmed by triple …
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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...
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