Kajal Gulati,Nicholas Magnan,Travis J Lybbert et al.
Kajal Gulati et al.
Studies on social learning and technology adoption often only consider the networks of a single individual in a household as a source of information influencing agricultural production decisions. We test the validity of this assumption by e...
Understanding education policy preferences: Survey experiments with policymakers in 35 developing countries [0.03%]
了解教育政策偏好:35个发展中国家的政策制定者调查实验
Lee Crawfurd,Susannah Hares,Ana Minardi et al.
Lee Crawfurd et al.
Despite rapid increases in global access to primary school, average learning outcomes in many low and middle income countries remain low. International actors are increasingly focused on a policy agenda prioritizing foundational learning, m...
Jocelyn E Finlay,Mariam Gulaid,Chiseche Mibenge et al.
Jocelyn E Finlay et al.
The pathway linking contraceptive access and use to women's economic empowerment is explored in this narrative review. Contraception can have a direct effect on women's economic empowerment through supporting bodily autonomy, but the main w...
Laura Abramovsky,Nneka Akwunwa,Britta Augsburg et al.
Laura Abramovsky et al.
We evaluate the effectiveness of a sanitation marketing intervention aimed at increasing the supply of improved toilet products by local businesses and the household demand for toilets in rural Nigeria. Results from a randomized controlled ...
Maria Laura Alzua,Juan Camilo Cardenas,Habiba Djebbari
Maria Laura Alzua
Experts argue that the adoption of healthy sanitation practices, such as hand washing and latrine use, requires focusing on the entire community rather than individual behaviors. According to this view, one limiting factor in ending open de...
Can social protection contribute to social connectedness in contexts of forced displacement and crisis? Lessons from Jordan's labelled cash transfer for education [0.03%]
社会保护能否促进流离失所和危机背景下的社会联系?来自约旦教育标签化现金转移项目的启示
Bassam Abu Hamad,Nicola Jones,Shoroq Abuhamad et al.
Bassam Abu Hamad et al.
Social protection programming can help address gender- and lifecycle-specific vulnerabilities, particularly in humanitarian contexts. Although adolescents are disproportionately affected by crises, there remains limited evidence about how s...
Adapting the Women's empowerment in nutrition index: Lessons from Kenya [0.03%]
妇女赋权于营养指数在肯尼亚的本土化尝试及其启示
Erin Lentz,Nathan Jensen,Watson Lepariyo et al.
Erin Lentz et al.
Women face a disproportionate burden of malnutrition and food insecurity. Research has shown that women's empowerment can buffer women against nutritional problems. This paper contributes to ongoing efforts to measure women's empowerment th...
To use financial incentives or not? Insights from experiments in encouraging sanitation investments in four countries [0.03%]
是否使用金融激励?来自四个国家的卫生设施投资促进实验中的启示
Sanghmitra Gautam,Michael Gechter,Raymond P Guiteras et al.
Sanghmitra Gautam et al.
We conduct a systematic re-analysis of intervention-based studies that promote hygienic latrines and evaluate via experimental methods. We impose systematic inclusion criteria to identify such studies and compile their microdata to harmoniz...
Remedial, institutional or radical? Explaining community responses to violence against women in an NGO programme to prevent violence in Mumbai, India [0.03%]
补救的、体制性的还是激进的?在印度孟买的一个非政府组织预防暴力项目中,解释社区对针对妇女暴力行为的反应
Lu Gram,Sukanya Paradkar,Chatush Singh et al.
Lu Gram et al.
Despite ambitions in development and global health policy to transform communities into supportive environments for women facing risks of violence, our understanding of how to best engage communities remains incomplete. In particular, there...
Long COVID: The evolution of household welfare in developing countries during the pandemic [0.03%]
长期新冠:疫情期间发展中国家家庭福利的变化与发展
Ben Brunckhorst,Alexandru Cojocaru,Yeon Soo Kim et al.
Ben Brunckhorst et al.
This study examines household welfare dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic, using harmonized data from over 300 phone surveys in 80 countries during 2020 and 2021, representing more than 2.5 billion people. The analysis traces out the evol...