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This paper analyzes empirically whether the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), advocating the multiple dimensions of women's rights, affects the level of women's rights in a country. Measuring commitments to the CEDAW based on...
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We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...
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environment and people's well-being. Wood provision is often time-consuming and the emitted smoke has severe health effects - both …
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The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …
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increase is partly explained by the deterioration of the health habits of affected women. Together, these results help explain …
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