Documents et rapports
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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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10625 Date du document: 4 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Miller,Amisha,Lall,Saurabh A.,Goldstein,Markus P.,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
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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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10072 Date du document: 1 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Shah,Manisha,Seager,Jennifer,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Goldstein,Markus P.
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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...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 174762 Date du document: 28 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cherchi,Ludovica,Goldstein,Markus P.,Habyarimana,James Paul,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,O'Sullivan,Michael B.,Udry,Christopher Robert
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Empowering Women Farmers : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mozambique : Empowering Women Farmers : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mozambique (anglais)
These results show how a psychological mindset training targeted to women farmers can lead to greater investment and entrepreneurship, helping their households transition out of subsistence farming and...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 166128 Date du document: 16 novembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
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Women’s Land Tenure Security and the Environment : Evidence from Africa (anglais)
More secure rights can increase a farmer’s incentive to invest in their land, boosting productivity, and thus reducing the need to clear more land. Land tenure insecurity can lead a farmer to over-farm...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 175849 Date du document: 8 novembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
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Coping with COVID-19 Shocks in Western Uganda (anglais)
In Western Uganda, women farmers and their households were facing widespread agricultural and non-agricultural income shocks in September 2020, indicating a protracted crisis. To cope with these shocks...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 165302 Date du document: 1 septembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sharma,Ambika,Gruver,Ariel Rose,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,O'Sullivan,Michael B.
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Are Mobile Savings the Silver Bullet to Help Women Grow Their Businesses? (anglais)
In Tanzania and Indonesia, we promoted the expansion of mobile savings accounts among women micro-entrepreneurs and provided them with business related training. In doing so, we simultaneously relaxed...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 130417 Date du document: 1 octobre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bastian,Gautam Gustav,Bianchi,Iacopo,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Goldstein,Markus P.,Jaluka,Tanvi,Knowles,James C.,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Kartaadipoetra,Firman Witoelar
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Empowering girls triggers their brothers to compete : Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda (anglais)
This brief has key messages through an experiment in Uganda, we find that empowering adolescent girls triggers a surge in their brothers’ competitiveness.Understanding preferences for competition is important...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 109367 Date du document: 1 octobre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Vasilaky,Kathryn