Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
By O. Bandiera, N. Buehren, Robin Burgess, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, M. Sulaiman. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017
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We evaluate a multifaceted policy intervention attempting to jump-start adolescent women’s empowerment in Uganda by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction, and marriage. We find that four years postintervention, adolescent girls in treated communities are more likely to be self-employed. Teen pregnancy, early entry into marriage/cohabitation, and the share of girls reporting sex against their will fall sharply. The results highlight the potential of a multifaceted program that provides skills transfers as a viable and cost-effective policy intervention to improve the economic and social empowerment of adolescent girls over a four-year horizon. (JEL I25, J12, J13, J16, J23, J24, O15)
Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research
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- Empowering Women Through Financial Inclusion: A Study of Urban Slum (2019, background): “Administrative framework, social standards, independence in basic leadership, social versatility and systems additionally significantly affect women empowerment procedures (Bandiera et al., 2018; Beteta, 2006; Chatterjee, Gupta, & Upadhyay, 2018; Kumar et. al., 2019).”
- What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls (2019, background): “There is great interest in programs for adolescent girls, but many of those programs focus on building life skills and increasing earning capacity directly (see, for example, (Adoho et al. 2014; Bandiera et al. 2018; Bandiera et al. 2019) rather than keeping girls in school and increasing their lear”
- When the money runs out: Do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation? (2016, neutral): “For example, the Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) program in Uganda, which provided vocational and life skills training to 14-20 year old girls in development clubs held outside of school, showed significant declines in childbearing, marriage, and having had sex unwillingly within tw”