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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 …
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This study looks at how a community event?adolescent women's economic and social empowerment -- and a family factor …
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-making or attitudes toward the general role of women in society …
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The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible girls in middle school increased in the short term by...
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A large body of research has attempted to explore the links between women's autonomy and their uptake of reproductive … Living Standards Measurement Survey to examine the influence of household decision making on women's uptake of reproductive … health services. The analysis finds that women's decision-making power has a significant positive correlation with …
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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 …
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The proliferation of mobile phones in developing countries has generated a wave of interest in collecting high-frequency socioeconomic surveys using this technology. This paper considers lessons from one such survey effort in a difficult environment -- the South Sudan Experimental Phone Survey,...
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Methodological research has showcased GPS technology as the new gold-standard in land area measurement in large-scale household surveys. Nonetheless, facing budget constraints, survey agencies continue to measure with GPS only plots within sampled enumeration areas or a given radius of dwelling...
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In fragile states and areas beset by insecurity and conflict, the time available for a face-to-face interview is … interview time could not exceed 60 minutes …
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This study carries out a thorough investigation of the potential sources of mismatch in poverty and inequality levels and trends between the Tanzania National Panel Survey and Household Budget Survey. The main findings of the study include the following. First, the difference in poverty levels...
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