The economics of child marriage Empowerment programmes improve adolescent girls’ educational and labour market outcomes; financial incentives are effective in reducing child marriage Health Rachel Glennerster Nina Buchmann Erica Field Published 09.09.20
Negotiating a better future: Experimental evidence from Zambia Can we increase girls’ educational outcomes through endowing them with negotiation skills? Health Kathleen L. McGinn Nava Ashraf Natalie Bau Corinne Low Published 02.09.20
Does language create our gender biases? Can the linguistic structure of our mother tongue train us to see the world in terms of masculine and feminine? Institutions & Political Economy Pamela Jakiela Published 13.05.20
Do changing gender norms counteract the effects of information on the aspirations of Saudi women? The provision of information about peers’ aspirations increases the labour market expectations of Saudi women, and is not counteracted by local gender norms Labour Markets Monira Essa Aloud Sara Al-Rashood Ina Ganguli Basit Zafar Published 27.04.20
Helping microenterprises grow: What works and what doesn’t Policy interventions in non-agricultural small-scale enterprises shed light on what matters for firm growth and profitability Firms Seema Jayachandran Published 06.02.20
What happens when investments targeting women’s microbusinesses go to men? Previous estimates of returns to microfinance for women are low partly because they often use it to invest in businesses that are not their own Finance Arielle Bernhardt Erica Field Rohini Pande Natalia Rigol Published 27.01.20
What does the decrease in child mortality really mean? A decline in child mortality in America led to substantial changes in women’s choices and behaviour Health Sonia Bhalotra Published 14.11.19
Empowering adolescent girls in Sierra Leone under the Ebola crisis In the midst of the Ebola crisis an empowerment programme acts as a shield for adolescent girls Education Oriana Bandiera Niklas Buehren Markus Goldstein Imran Rasul Andrea Smurra Published 06.09.19
Female leadership Affirmative action in local Indian politics increased graduation rates for girls and reduced the aspiration gap between boys and girls Institutions & Political Economy Esther Duflo Published 28.08.19
