consequences of violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa using large demographic and health survey data collected pre …-pandemic. Relying on a two-stage least square method to address endogeneity, we find that an increase in the share of women subject to … cost results from a significant drop in female employment. Our results also show that violence against women is more …

(GMoU) on development of rural women's traditional enterprises in the Niger Delta region. A total of 2400 women were sampled … undermined those initiatives that focused on empowering rural women in traditional enterprises, due to the cultural and … traditional context in the region. This causes both direct harm to women and their children, and wider costs to African economies …

-level data from Demographic and Health Surveys of 34 African countries to aggregate level indicators, we have quantified and … women’s level of educational attainment. …