The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

current adult outcomes from the 2000 wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey. Higher early-life rainfall has large positive … effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …

countries that have had large-scale school construction projects, Indonesia and Zambia. Consistent with the model, we find that … Indonesia, as well as a similar program in Zambia, we find evidence consistent with this prediction. Although the program had no …

We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were …

This paper reports on the first randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing the standard microcredit group … likely to have a microcredit loan. They were no more likely to start any new business, although they were more likely to … health, education, and women's empowerment. The results of this study are largely consistent with those of four other …

in-kind grants are large and positive for both males and females, the gain in profits is almost zero for women with … initial profits below the median, suggesting that capital alone is not enough to grow subsistence enterprises owned by women …. Second, for women we strongly reject equality of the cash and in-kind grants; only in-kind grants lead to growth in business …