Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to limit their investments into human capital and enforce dependence on men. The authors evaluate a multi-faceted policy intervention...
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okr-10986-282822021-05-25T09:03:21Z Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa Bandiera, Oriana Buehren, Niklas Burgess, Robin Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Sulaiman, Munshi GENDER YOUTH EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S AGENCY RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL EARLY MARRIAGE CHILDBEARING ADOLESCENT GIRLS SELF-EMPLOYMENT AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to limit their investments into human capital and enforce dependence on men. The authors evaluate a multi-faceted policy intervention attempting to jumpstart adolescent women’s empowerment in Uganda, a context in which 60 percent of the population are aged below twenty. The intervention aims to relax human capital constraints that adolescent girls face by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction and marriage. The authors find that four years post-intervention, adolescent girls in treated communities are 48 percent more likely to engage in income generating activities, an impact almost entirely driven by their greater engagement in self-employment. Teen pregnancy falls by 34 percent, and early entry into marriage/cohabitation falls by 62 percent. Strikingly, the share of girls reporting sex against their will drops by close to a third and aspired ages at which to marry and start childbearing move forward. The results highlight the potential of a multi-faceted program that provides skills transfers as a viable and cost-e¤ective policy intervention to improve the economic and social empowerment of adolescent girls over a four year horizon. 2017-09-11T15:59:03Z 2017-09-11T15:59:03Z 2018-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/707081502348725124/Women-s-empowerment-in-action-evidence-from-a-randomized-control-trial-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28282 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper |
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GENDER YOUTH EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S AGENCY RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL EARLY MARRIAGE CHILDBEARING ADOLESCENT GIRLS SELF-EMPLOYMENT AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT |
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GENDER YOUTH EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S AGENCY RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL EARLY MARRIAGE CHILDBEARING ADOLESCENT GIRLS SELF-EMPLOYMENT AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Bandiera, Oriana Buehren, Niklas Burgess, Robin Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Sulaiman, Munshi Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa |
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Women in developing countries are
disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and
childbearing interact to limit their investments into human
capital and enforce dependence on men. The authors evaluate
a multi-faceted policy intervention attempting to jumpstart
adolescent women’s empowerment in Uganda, a context in which
60 percent of the population are aged below twenty. The
intervention aims to relax human capital constraints that
adolescent girls face by simultaneously providing them
vocational training and information on sex, reproduction and
marriage. The authors find that four years
post-intervention, adolescent girls in treated communities
are 48 percent more likely to engage in income generating
activities, an impact almost entirely driven by their
greater engagement in self-employment. Teen pregnancy falls
by 34 percent, and early entry into marriage/cohabitation
falls by 62 percent. Strikingly, the share of girls
reporting sex against their will drops by close to a third
and aspired ages at which to marry and start childbearing
move forward. The results highlight the potential of a
multi-faceted program that provides skills transfers as a
viable and cost-e¤ective policy intervention to improve the
economic and social empowerment of adolescent girls over a
four year horizon. |
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Working Paper |
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Bandiera, Oriana Buehren, Niklas Burgess, Robin Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Sulaiman, Munshi |
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Bandiera, Oriana Buehren, Niklas Burgess, Robin Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Sulaiman, Munshi |
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Bandiera, Oriana |
| title |
Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa |
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Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa |
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Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa |
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Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa |
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Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa |
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women’s empowerment in action : evidence from a randomized control trial in africa |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/707081502348725124/Women-s-empowerment-in-action-evidence-from-a-randomized-control-trial-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28282 |
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