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Do we need more women in power? : gender, public policy, and development in Bolivia

Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2014

This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...

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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico

Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021

This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...

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Trade facilitation measures to enhance women's participation in cross-border trade in BBIN

Taneja, Nisha; Joshi, Sanjana; Prakash, Shravani; … - 2018

recent times, one aspect which remains largely unexplored is the importance of gender sensitivity in trade facilitation. The … gender dimensions of trade facilitation and logistics have largely been examined in sub-Saharan Africa. In South Asia …, however, not much attention has been given to understand the gender impact of services involved in trade facilitation like …

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When women win : can female representation decrease gender-based violence?

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Pappa, Euē; Santantonio, … - 2022

gender-based violence has been limited. Previous studies have highlighted the effect of female political representation on … incidence of gender-based violence in the United States. Using a regression discontinuity design on mixed-gender races, we find … and effort in solving gender-related crimes. …

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Causal estimates of the intangible costs of violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Agüero, Jorge M. - 2013

Violence has a striking gender pattern. Men are more likely to be attacked by a stranger, while women experience …

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Conditional cash transfers for women and spousal violence : evidence of the long-term relationship from the Oportunidades program in Rural Mexico

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Castro, Roberto; Morales, Juan S. - 2015

This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program. It uses data from three nationally representative surveys that include detailed information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats...

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Droughts, women and indigenous people in Chile : assessing the impacts on income and employment

Pérez Silva, Rodrigo; Castillo, Mayarí; Cazzuffi, Chiara - 2023

Climate change is a pressing issue, affecting the lives of all people across the world. However, poorer and excluded communities are usually more affected, especially in low-income countries. Among them, women but particularly indigenous groups in rural areas seem to bear the bulk of the impacts...

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The effects of tenure security on women’s empowerment and food security : evidence from a land regularization program in Ecuador

Schling, Maja; Pazos, Nicolas; Corral, Leonardo; … - 2023

This paper evaluates the impact of a rural land administration program in Ecuador on female empowerment and household food security. Using a double robust estimation that combines the difference-in-difference approach with inverse probability weighting, we explore whether receiving a...

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Economic determinants of intimate partner violence : the case of Sweden during Covid-19

Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Gerrell, Manne - 2022

We document an increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Sweden during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, notwithstanding the famously lasseiz-faire approach taken by the coutry. We investigate the role of different mediating factors, affected by the pandemic, by the...

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Foreign aid and female empowerment

Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Bonnier, Evelina; Olofsgård, Anders - 2023

on an index of female agency and women's sexual and fertility preferences. Gender-targeted aid has a further positive … impact on women's sexual and fertility preferences, and more tentatively on an index focusing on gender-based violence …. However, the positive impact of gender-targeted aid disappears in patrilineal communities, and men's attitudes towards female …

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