evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The …

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim … societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt …

We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty … estimation methods and potential omitted variable bias. We also explore the channels through which energy poverty influences …

's empowerment when structural causes of disempowerment, external to the household, are present and significant …

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 …

those in stable marriages, experience a relative increase in empowerment. We test these predictions using double …

rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging … initial levels of social empowerment. We find no evidence of positive spillover effects for the program within treated …