Strengthening women's ownership, control, and use of land, livestock, and savings assets matters for poverty and shared … costly in lost economic output and productivity growth; and women's control over household resources and spending decisions … women in experimental settings. On livestock, the review points to a striking dearth of evidence on the causal impact of …

This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by strong preference … pooled individual-level data for India, the paper compares the age structure and anemia status of women by the sex of their … first-born and uncovers several new findings. First, the share of living women with a first-born girl is a decreasing …

consequences of dropping out and how it mediates the effects of such programs. The analysis finds that women make decisions in a …

Despite their increasing prominence in policy debates, little is known about gender inequities in non …, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper documents and analyzes gender differences in the individual portfolio choice and … productivity of non-farm entrepreneurship. Except for Ethiopia, women are less likely than men to become nonfarm entrepreneurs …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …

This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in Sierra Leone, where women … impact of the Ebola outbreak on the economic lives of 4,700 women tracked over the crisis, and any ameliorating role played … school post-crisis. In treated villages, the unavailability of young women leads some older girls to use transactional sex as …

A large body of research has attempted to explore the links between women's autonomy and their uptake of reproductive … Living Standards Measurement Survey to examine the influence of household decision making on women's uptake of reproductive … health services. The analysis finds that women's decision-making power has a significant positive correlation with …

Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role … evidence focuses attention on the importance of developing pro-FPLP policies specifically targeting women belonging to lower …

promotion of gender equality. It employs the family as the main unit of analysis because a large part of gender interactions … and identifies several factors that have altered the bargaining position of men and women over the last decades. It then … reviews empirical work on the contribution of men, as fathers and husbands, to the health and socioeconomic outcomes of women …