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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa

Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

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...

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Who benefits from better roads and why? : mixed methods analysis of the gender-disaggregated impacts of a rural roads project in Vietnam

Mannava, Aneesh; Perova, Elizaveta; Phuong Thi Minh Tran - 2020

The literature lends empirical support for the idea that improvements to transport infrastructure lead to economic development. How and why the benefits of better transport differ between genders is less clear. This paper attempts to answer this question by combining a nonexperimental impact...

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Are you being asked? : impacts of respondent selection on measuring employment

Kilic, Talip; Van den Broeck, Goedele; Koolwal, Gayatri; … - 2020

economic growth and designing well-targeted, gender-sensitive labor policies. How respondent selection in household and labor …

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Gender Streaming in Vietnam

Chowdhury, Iffat - 2018

We examine the gender wage gap in Vietnam and show that a non-trivial part of the gap is associated with occupational … is driven by gender differences in preferences for non-monetary characteristics of the jobs. First, we explore whether … occupational sorting is driven by gender differences in preferences for non-monetary characteristics of jobs and find that there …

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Getting the (gender-disaggregated) lay of the land : impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights

Kilic, Talip; Moylan, Heather; Koolwal, Gayatri - 2020

Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents who provide the required individual-disaggregated data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, this study shows...

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