Financial access and women's role in household decisions: Empirical evidence from India's National Rural Livelihoods project [0.03%]
金融准入与妇女在家庭决策中的作用：来自印度国家农村生计项目的经验证据
Anjini Kochar,Closepet Nagabhushana,Ritwik Sarkar et al.
Anjini Kochar et al.
Government programs supporting self help groups (SHGs) generally target women on the assumption that doing so enhances women's decision-making. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We advance and test one explanation: the loan amounts...
The role of food preferences in determining diet quality for Tanzanian consumers [0.03%]
坦桑尼亚消费者食物偏好在决定饮食质量中的作用
Ellen McCullough,Chen Zhen,Soye Shin et al.
Ellen McCullough et al.
Consumer preferences can be leveraged to magnify the impacts of agricultural investments and interventions on diets for all consumers in an economy, not just farmers. Using nationally representative panel data from Tanzania, we estimate dem...
Endogenous inclusion in the Demographic and Health Survey anthropometric sample: Implications for studying height within households [0.03%]
demographic and health调查的人体测量样本内生性纳入：家庭内部身高研究的影响
Dean Spears,Diane Coffey,Jere R Behrman
Dean Spears
Development economists study both anthropometry and intra-household allocation. In these literatures, the Demographic and Household Surveys (DHS) are essential. The DHS censors its anthropometric sample by age: only children under five are ...
How light is too light touch: The effect of a short training-based intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso [0.03%]
轻触何以为度——布基纳法索家庭养禽生产中短期培训干预效果评估
Jessica Leight,Josué Awonon,Abdoulaye Pedehombga et al.
Jessica Leight et al.
This paper reports on the effects of a training-based intervention seeking to increase household engagement in poultry production in Burkina Faso, analyzing data from a large-scale cluster randomized trial in which 1798 households in 60 com...
Natalie Bau,Gaurav Khanna,Corinne Low et al.
Natalie Bau et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women in lower-income countries, where there may be limited soc...
Relative power: Explaining the effects of food and cash transfers on allocative behaviour in rural Nepalese households [0.03%]
相对权力：解释食品和现金转移支付对尼泊尔农村家庭资源配置行为的影响机制
Helen Harris-Fry,Naomi M Saville,Puskar Paudel et al.
Helen Harris-Fry et al.
We estimate the effects of antenatal food and cash transfers with women's groups on household allocative behaviour and explore whether these effects are explained by intergenerational bargaining among women. Interventions were tested in ran...
Raphael Bruce,Alexsandros Cavgias,Luis Meloni et al.
Raphael Bruce et al.
We study the effect of women's public leadership in times of crisis. We use a regression discontinuity design in close mayoral races between male and female candidates to understand the impact of having a woman as a mayor during the COVID-1...
Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports [0.03%]
大流行期间的信息与行为反应：以Covid-19死亡报告延迟为例
Emilio Gutierrez,Adrian Rubli,Tiago Tavares
Emilio Gutierrez
Providing information is important for managing epidemics, but issues with data accuracy may hinder its effectiveness. Focusing on Covid-19 in Mexico, we ask whether delays in death reports affect individuals' beliefs and behavior. Exploiti...
Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic? [0.03%]
青年赋权项目能在COVID-19疫情期间减少针对女孩的暴力行为吗？
Selim Gulesci,Manuela Puente-Beccar,Diego Ubfal
Selim Gulesci
This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduced the reported prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offered training in soft skills and technical skills, sexual education, mentori...
Do job fairs matter? Experimental evidence on the impact of job-fair attendance [0.03%]
招聘会重要吗？关于参加招聘会影响的实验证据
Emily A Beam
Emily A Beam
I estimate the causal impact of attending a job fair on employment outcomes and labor market perceptions, using a randomized encouragement design to induce individuals in the rural Philippines to attend a nearby job fair for domestic and ov...