This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data … product has dampened rising female headship. However, other subtle transformations occurring across Africa?changes in marriage …

In Turkey, female employment and education are still relatively low, while fertility levels are high compared with … education and employment come along with important decreases in fertility. By mobilizing census and survey data, this paper … finds that fertility decreases are mainly caused by fewer transitions to a third birth. Graduate women participating in the …

The Middle East and North Africa region is known for having low female labor market participation rates as compared … the U-shape hypothesis in countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It finds that the region has outperformed other … transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with …

context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the …

Divorce and widowhood succeeded by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's well-being. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to dissolutions and remarriage and hence bear more of the …

advance women's economic empowerment in Africa …Female participation in entrepreneurial activities is higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than in any other region. However …, women-owned businesses significantly underperform those owned by men. This paper identifies the main constraints that women …

goal of increasing the employment and income of 2,500 young Liberian women by providing livelihood and life skills training …This paper presents findings from the impact evaluation of the Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women … of the training program ended. Strong impacts are found on the employment and earnings outcomes of program participants …

conditional cash transfer experiment among teenage girls and young women in Malawi, which was designed to address these …. Policymakers looking to design cost-effective cash transfer programs targeted toward young women should note the relative …

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …

service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …