The paper explores whether one of the largest programs in the world for women's empowerment and rural livelihoods, the …), invest in education, and increase total expenditures (for the poorest and poor). Women who participated in the program had … more freedom to go places and were less afraid to disagree with their husbands; the women participated more in village …

support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational training for rural women in several states of India … disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do not work but whose … to women in untreated districts. It finds consistent estimates for average treatment and intent to treat effects …

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …

A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of … sufficient to grow women-owned subsistence-level firms. However, it can work if it is delivered in-kind to more successful women … microentrepreneurs, and it should boost the performance of women's larger-sized SMEs. Very poor women need a more intensive package of …

Electrification has been shown to accelerate opportunities for women by moving them into more productive activities …. This paper investigates the causal link between electricity access and women's empowerment, using a large gender …-disaggregated data set on India. Empowerment is measured by women's decision-making ability, mobility, financial autonomy, reproductive …

This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in … India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not … increase after the reforms, there is significant evidence that more women-owned establishments were created in the unorganized …