Working Paper

Food for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s. This paper examines the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils’ attendance and girls’ enrolment rate within...

• Enrolment
• School attendance
• Gender

Working Paper

This paper considers arguments about Islam and women’s welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts. Key methodological issues include how to focus on...

• Courts
• Ethnography
• Gender

Working Paper

We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of disclosure...

• Artefactual field experiment
• Bargaining
• Gender

Working Paper

Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which...

• Social norms
• Harmful customs
• Gender

Working Paper

We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana, we...

• Gender
• Ghana
• Graduate employability

Working Paper

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second...

• Development
• Education
• Family planning

Working Paper

We examine a public goods game in 83 communities in northern Liberia. Women contributed substantially more to a small-scale development project when playing with other women than in mixed-gender groups, where they contributed at about the same levels...

• Public goods
• Gender
• Bayesian estimation

Working Paper

Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide. We look at differences in outcomes for male and female enterprises and their sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of high female participation in...

• Gender
• Norms
• Labour market participation

Blog

by Smriti Sharma May 2019

Women are undoubtedly doing better today than they were even 40-50 years ago. The gender gap has shrunk in many areas, including educational...

• Gender
• Caste
• Equality

Journal Article

Food for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s. This paper examines the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils’ attendance and girls’ enrolment rate within...

• Enrolment
• School attendance
• Gender

Journal Special Issue

• Inequality
• child malnutrition
• Women's empowerment

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries

• Gender
• Employment
• Education

Journal Article

This paper examines the relationship among gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam. Our dataset is from the 2011, 2013, and 2015 results of the Micro, Small, and...

• Entrepreneurship
• Financial constraints
• Gender

Working Paper

Reducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and deep-rooted prejudices against women. In this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether facilitating Vietnamese...

• Gender
• Inequality
• Male perception

Working Paper

We investigate within the context of Vietnam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify...

• Gender
• Education
• Access to education

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare

• Female autonomy
• Gender
• Women's welfare