We estimate the community-level impact of foreign aid projects on women's empowerment in the country with the most … 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 …

This paper examines the effect of women's effective land ownership on female empowerment and household food security in … ownership of plots provides women with increased bargaining power, empowering them to participate more actively in productive … informal land ownership on women's empowerment, we do find that owning land significantly decreases the daily time dedicated to …

probability weighting, we explore whether receiving a georeferenced cadastral map of ones parcel provides women with increased … affected womens time use, as beneficiary women spent more hours working in non-agricultural activities, investing in their own …, which enables women to increase their bargaining power within the household in order to improve their own and the family …