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

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 …

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 …

Access to microcredit has been shown to generate only modest average benefits for recipient households. We study …

Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could … the small microcredit treatment effects often found for the average household mask important heterogeneity? In Hyderabad …