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 …

-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …

microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among … local areas are important. We do find evidence that women invested the grants differently from men. A smaller share of the …

experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of … microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source, women with present-biased preferences are more likely than others to borrow …

attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative …

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 …

-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …, particularly for women …

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their … empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an …