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This study presents results from a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged … 18 to 19 years in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention … designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted …
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Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question, this paper extends the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential destinations,...
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Most evaluations of public works programs in developing countries study their effects on poverty reduction and other labor market outcomes (job creation, earnings, and participation). However, very few look at other collateral effects, such as the incidence of violence. Between 2009 and 2014, El...
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Two major approaches on how to address women's land security can be identified: reforming the formal legal sector, and … embracing informal community practices. However, through research conducted among Kenya's agricultural communities, the authors … control and ultimately prevent women from obtaining land, leaving all of these systems inadequate in ensuring women's access …
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Following ten years of relatively robust economic growth, Kenya achieved lower-middle-income country status in 2014 …. The remarkable expansion of telecommunications and mobile financial services shifted Kenya's economic paradigm to an … drivers of economic growth in Kenya, along with their fiscal implications. Chapter 2 describes Kenya's progress in reducing …
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settlements in Kenya. There is ample potential for the transport sector to generate significant changes in women's productivity … and empowerment, while ensuring equitable access to opportunities is offered for both men and women. This is what Kenya … conceived, designed, and matured from either a male-oriented or a gender-neutral perspective is thus unsurprising. In Kenya …
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of their unassisted competitors. This study tests this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya. The …
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of occupational segregation, the program had a surprising effect. For women who at baseline were implicitly biased … against associating women with professional attributes, the likelihood that the program induced switching into the information … and communications technology sector was more than three times as large than that of unbiased women. These results suggest …
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aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in India. The study finds that girls' self-efficacy and mental health are …
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