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Enhancing the livelihoods of marginalized indigenous women through customary forests in Bali, IndonesiaThis study examines how, why, and under what conditions marginalized women of customary communities can contribute and gain access to the benefits of the social forestry programme...
Women Forests and forestry CultureWorking Paper
Civil wars and stumbling of patriarchal societies: The reconstruction of gender relations in post-conflict LiberiaThis research project traces how women’s participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context...
Liberia Civil conflict WomenBlog
A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid care
In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on productive activity in different countries...
Unpaid labour Gender equality Gender inequalityWorking Paper
Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions and skills formation in secondary schoolThis paper examines peer effects on students’ gender norm perceptions and skills formation...
Peer effect Gender norms Gender inequalityWorking Paper
Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countriesWe study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay...
child penalty event study female labour supplyWorking Paper
Access to microfinance and female labour force participationAlthough microfinance started as a movement to improve women’s economic well-being through increased female entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women’s attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully underst...
Microfinance female entrepreneurship WellbeingWorking Paper
Marriage, work, and migration: The role of infrastructure development and gender normsTraditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries...
Migration Marriage markets Female labour force participationPlenary session
Dismantling barriers to women's employment in developing countriesWatch the live stream recording This talk will discuss barriers to women’s participation in the labor force in low-income countries. First, services that free up women’s time to work outside the home, including child care services, are...
Women's economic empowerment Women's work Gender normsJournal Article
Political role models and child marriage in IndiaPart of Journal Special Issue Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare
Gender quotas Age at marriage Gender normsJournal Article
Impact of soil conservation adoption on intra‐household allocations in ZambiaPart of Journal Special Issue Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare
Agricultural technology Gender norms ZambiaWorking Paper
Political role models, child marriage, and women’s autonomy over marriage in IndiaDrawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage...
Gender quotas Age at marriage Gender normsWorking Paper
Impact of soil conservation adoption on intrahousehold allocations in ZambiaIn this paper, we examine the impact of soil conservation adoption on gender-specific resource allocations within households in Zambia...
Agricultural technology Gender norms Zambia