that girls engage in income generating activities by 32 percent mainly driven by increased participation in self … probability of having a child decreases by 26 percent. Strikingly, the share of girls reporting sex against their will drops from … 21 percent to almost zero. The findings suggest combined interventions might be more effective among adolescent girls …

This paper evaluates a program targeted to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them economically as well …

This paper evaluates a program targeted to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them economically as well …

This paper documents the positive link between the noncognitive skills of women farmers and the adoption of a cash crop … is not explained by differences across women in education and cognitive skills. It is also not explained by the fact that … women with higher noncognitive ability tend to be married to husbands of higher noncognitive ability and education. The …

reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …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 …

Improving women's agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender … equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement-both disorganized and partial …-provide a fragmented understanding of the constraints women face in exercising their agency, restricting the design of quality …

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 …

This paper documents the positive link between the noncognitive skills of women farmers and the adoption of a cash crop … is not explained by differences across women in education and cognitive skills. It is also not explained by the fact that … women with higher noncognitive ability tend to be married to husbands of higher noncognitive ability and education. The …

adolescent girls in Uganda. In contrast with the literature, the study finds no gender differences in competitiveness among … adolescents, on average. It also finds no evidence of differences in competitiveness between girls in treatment and control …