This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases … primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. …

We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. We estimate that when valuing labor at market … livestock if economic returns are negative, or are these estimates wrong? We discuss potential explanations, including labor … market failures, for why livestock investments may persist. …

Women fulfil a wide variety of roles on farms - farm manager, household manager, other family member work-ing on the … farm, partner, mother, cook, carer and many more. The majority of the women interviewed experience this variety of roles as …, long distances in rural areas and little free time are aggravating factors for many women. Despite their high motivation to …

a women’s empowerment programme in rural India on child immunization and school enrolment. The survey covers both …

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and infuence gender norms? In collaboration with … Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages … status quo). Women in a random subset of villages were also trained on account use. In the short run, relative to women just …

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their … empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an …

examine the extent to which livestock, grain storage and interhousehold transfers are used to smooth consumption against …

die Jahre 1990 bis 2015. Der Bereich Landwirtschaft umfasst dabei die Emissionen aus der Tierhaltung und der Nutzung …