While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …

Even though women’s empowerment within a household is a strategic gender need, in a sense it is a necessary condition … than being a mere solution to the practical short term challenges of women, and sexism is seen as a fetter against women …’s empowerment in different spheres of women life, yet there is a lack of research which explores the link between sexism and women …

prosperity in a sustainable manner. More recently, women's and girls' empowerment (WGE) has become a priority in the Africa … operationalization. This note lays out a pragmatic Operational Approach to enhancing women's and girls' empowerment in World Bank …

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 nearly 9 percentage points. This paper uses regression discontinuity …. Beneficiary adolescent girls are more likely to progress through and complete middle school and work less. There is suggestive …