Focusing on intra-household allocation, we investigate the effects of coffee market liberalisation in Uganda. As coffee …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … preferences of spouses diverge, and support the view that empowering women in developing countries should lead to more future …

Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path … productive assets to increase womenââ'¬â"¢s empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention … increases women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … the policy bolstered women's intra-household bargaining power, resulting in downstream benefits through enhanced parental …

We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …

entrepreneurs? Results point to the need for policymakers to identify and emulate efficient informal networks in order to develop … innovative support policies for vulnerable entrepreneurs, especially for those who are attached to weak or inefficient networks. …

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where … the latent women empowerment and its latent components (economic factors and financial confidence, managerial control …