Documents et rapports

Impact des Mesures d’Inclusion Productive dans les Filets Sociaux Adaptatifs au Niger (français)

Breadwinners and Caregivers : Examining the Global Relationship between Gender Norms and Economic Behavior (anglais)

Gender norms are often emphasized to help explain gender gaps in the labor market. This paper examines global patterns of gender attitudes and norms toward the stereotypical gender roles of the male breadwinner...

Shifting Spousal Decision-Making Patterns : Whom You Target in an Agricultural Intervention Matters (anglais)

Does it matter whether poverty reduction programs target the female or male spouse? A randomized controllled trial in Ethiopia is used to study the differential impacts of easing information and financial...

Asking Better Questions : The Effect of Changing Investment Organizations’ Evaluation Practices on Gender Disparities in Funding Innovation (anglais)

Female innovators raise fewer resources from investors, even when their ventures are similar to those of all-male teams. Efforts to mitigate the disparities have typically focused on changing how founders...

Ethiopia - Gender Diagnostic Report : Priorities for Promoting Equity (anglais)

This report, the Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic, presents evidence on the mechanisms underlying gender gaps in the Ethiopian workforce. Using data from the 2011–2016 Ethiopia Socioeconomic Surveys, this report...

Africa Gender Innovation Lab Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic : Building the Evidence Base to Address Gender Inequality in Ethiopia (anglais)

Ethiopia has made remarkable economic progress over the past decade, achieving high gross domestic product (GDP) growth, and dramatically reducing poverty. Despite this success, current gender gaps show...

Deux Têtes Valent Mieux Qu'une : Production Agricole et Investissement en Côte d'Ivoire (français)

Increasing agricultural productivity and investment is critical to reducing poverty, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture remains the dominant income-generating activity. One potential...

Evening the Credit Score : Can Psychometric Credit-Scoring Address Collateral Constraints for Women Entrepreneurs? (anglais)

Despite gender parity in access to microfinance, and many group-based microfinance schemes favoring women, women face more difficulty than men in getting loans of larger size, longer duration, individual...

Legacies of Conflict : Experiences, Self-efficacy and the Formation of Conditional Trust (anglais)

An established literature finds that those exposed to conflict are more pro-social later in life. This paper builds on this work in two directions using a sample of 4,200 women born during the Sierra Leonean...

Evening the Credit Score ? Impact of Psychometric Loan Appraisal for Women Entrepreneurs (anglais)

Women’s lower rates of ownership of collateralizable assets are a constraint to accessing larger business loans. This paper tests the impact of using psychometric credit scoring as a substitute for collateral...

Plot Labor Composition and Gender Differentials in Smallholders’ Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria (anglais)

Growth in Nigeria is central for poverty reduction. Agricultural sector is key for growth in Nigeria. Women are 25 percentage points less likely to manage an agricultural plot than men and those who manage...

Plot Labor Composition and the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity (anglais)

A large body of literature on intra-household labor allocation decisions of African farm households and the constraints faced by female farmers in mobilizing labor provides persuasive evidence on the importance...

Two Sides of Gender : Sex, Power, and Adolescence (anglais)

Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal...

Two Heads Are Better Than One : Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire (anglais)

Low levels of agricultural productivity and investment hinder economic growth in developing countries. This paper presents results from a field experiment in Côte d'Ivoire, which randomized wives’ participation...

Childcare, COVID-19 and Female Firm Exit : Impact of COVID-19 School Closure Policies on Global Gender Gaps in Business Outcomes (anglais)

This paper estimates the impact of a large negative childcare shock on gender gaps in entrepreneurship using the shock created by national COVID-19 school closure policies. The paper leverages a unique...

A Seat at the Table: The Role of Information, Conditions, and Voice in Redistributing Intra-household Property Rights (anglais)

This paper evaluates different policy instruments to increase demand for gender equality in formal land ownership among married couples in rural Uganda. The authors do so in the context of a land titling...

Breaking Barriers : Female Entrepreneurs Who Cross Over to Male-Dominated Sectors (anglais)

The report focuses on sectoral choice as one of the contributors to the gender gap in firm performance. It explores the difference in profits among female entrepreneurs who cross over into male-dominated...

Supporting Women’s Livelihoods at Scale : RCT Evidence from a Nationwide Graduation Program (anglais)

The success of graduation model programs at bringing low-income women out of poverty raises the question of how these programs can be usefully implemented at scale by developing countries that may have...

Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decision Making and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence : Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries (anglais)

Intimate partner violence affects 36 percent of women in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper examines the relationship between decision making within couples and the incidence of intimate partner violence across...

Pathways out of Extreme Poverty : Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger (anglais)

This paper analyzes a four-arm randomized evaluation of a multi-faceted economic inclusion intervention delivered by the Government of Niger to female beneficiaries of a national cash transfer program...