Banner-LDC5-expo

UNU-WIDER's LDC5 Conference Exhibition

Visit the virtual booth featuring materials shared at the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Doha, Qatar. Check out photos, videos, and infographics on our research results from LDCs.

Check out our new series of short videos on ‘The puzzle of peace’!

Learn about key issues in peace and conflict research in two minutes from top experts in the field. Click here to watch.
UNU-WIDER Winter School cohort

Capacity development in action: UNU-WIDER Winter School

In collaboration with Stellenbosch University, we organised an intensive winter school course on tax policy research, delivering training to 27 African researchers from 13 countries. Read more

Think WIDER Webinar Series – New perspectives on domestic revenue mobilization

This webinar series aims to facilitate a discussion on how domestic revenue mobilization can be supported in the Global South. Read more

Check out our research in brief

Our research and policy briefs provide a short overview with key findings, lessons, and policy implications, from some of our key research outputs.
Photo: Alexander Zach / UNU-WIDER

Visit our YouTube channel

Want to catch up on our recent events? Find out what Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz think about the SDGs? Click here to visit us on YouTube.

Introducing the WIDER Alumni

WIDER Alumni connects former UNU-WIDER PhD Fellows, Visiting scholars, research collaborators and personnel who share a unique and rich experience of learning and working together as the people behind the institute's research and operations. Read more

3 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

Filter by...

Reset all
Type
Show results
Female bargaining power
Working Paper
Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children: Lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte d’Ivoire

We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational expenses—elicited via lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Côte d’Ivoire—on the educational progression of b...

Risk attitudes Female bargaining power Education
Working Paper
Household bargaining and spending on children: Experimental evidence from Tanzania

This paper studies whether increasing the wife’s bargaining power results in couples allocating more resources to their child, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this are...

Intra-household allocation Female bargaining power Tanzania
Working Paper
Female say on income and child outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria

This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se...

Child education Child labour Female bargaining power
Displaying 3 of 3 results.
Get started with the UNU WIDER website...
Recent eventsProjectsConferences