This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification …

This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification …

This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification …

This paper examines gender inequality and female empowerment in rural Viet Nam. Using an extensive panel dataset on 2 … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …

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 women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases …) increases empowerment through agency and achievements, with no impact on access to resources. We use these interventions to test …

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 empowerment through agency and achievements, with no impact on access to resources. We use these interventions to test …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …