, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred …

Kenya (Haushofer and Shapiro 2016). Here we report detailed impacts of these transfers on physical and sexual intimate … partner violence, and construct a theory to explain them. Transfers to women averaging USD 709 reduced physical and sexual …: physical violence towards non-recipient women in treatment villages decreased (-0:16 SD). We show theoretically that transfers …

653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied fiscal shock was over 15 percent of local GDP. We find large impacts …

United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …

line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money …

of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that …

Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women … the effects of welfare reform on adult women's educational acquisition. We first estimate effects of welfare reform on … women. We conduct numerous specification checks and explore the mediating role of work. We find robust and convincing …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …