Measuring the Effect of a Community-level Program on Women's Empowerment Outcomes : Evidence from India
This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level female empowerment program significantly increases access to employment, physical mobility, and political participation. The program provides suppor...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/04/17530730/measuring-effect-community-level-program-womens-empowerment-outcomes-evidence-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13203 |
| Summary: | This paper uses primary data from rural
north India to show that participation in a community-level
female empowerment program significantly increases access to
employment, physical mobility, and political participation.
The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult
education classes, and vocational training for rural women
in several states of India; the data are from Uttarakhand.
The paper uses instrumental variables and
truncation-corrected matching on primary data to disentangle
the program's mechanisms, separately considering its
effect on women who work, and those who do not work but
whose reservation wage is increased by participation. The
analysis also finds significant spillover effects on
non-participants relative to women in untreated districts.
It finds consistent estimates for average treatment and
intent to treat effects |
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