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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

of their unassisted competitors. This study tests this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya. The …

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 …

aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in India. The study finds that girls' self-efficacy and mental health are …