Documents et rapports
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Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection (anglais)
Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference in which parents desire a male heir and daughter aversion in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11147 Date du document: 17 juin 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borker, Girija,Eeckhout,Jan,Luke,Nancy,Minz,Shantidani,Munshi,Kaivan,Swaminathan,Soumya
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Cash Is Queen : Local Economy Effects of Cash Transfers to Women in West Africa (anglais)
This paper examines the direct and spillover effects of cash transfers paid in a rural and low-income setting. In the short run, an unconditional cash transfer program for ultra-poor households in Northern...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11112 Date du document: 5 mai 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Papineni, Sreelakshmi,Gonzalez Martinez, Paula Lorena,Goldstein, Markus,Friedman, Jed
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TV, TEDx, and Tweets: Measuring the Impacts of a Multi-Pronged Edutainment Program in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan (anglais)
The evidence so far is mixed as to whether educational entertainment (or “edutainment”) can create sustainable changes in financial attitudes and behaviors, and few studies have tested such hypotheses...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11088 Date du document: 21 mars 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fowler,Ben,Heitzig, Christopher Joseph,Khan,Marrium,Pai, Renuka,Varma, Sakshi
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Deciding Not to Decide : When Is There Power in Not Deciding ? (anglais)
Agency—the ability to define one’s own goals and make choices to achieve them—is often measured through questions that capture an individual’s direct involvement in decision-making. Yet not participating...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11065 Date du document: 18 février 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hillesland,Marya,Doss,Cheryl R.,Masino,Serena,Querejeta,Martina,Donald, Aletheia Amalia,Seymour,Greg,Clingain,Clare
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The Unintended Impacts of an Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program : Experimental Evidence from Rwanda (anglais)
This study evaluates the impact of an intimate partner violence prevention program in Rwanda, using a randomized controlled trial. The 22-week couples training program aimed to improve communication, shift...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11040 Date du document: 21 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cullen,Claire,Alik Lagrange, Arthur,Ngatia,Muthoni,Vaillant, Julia
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Education, Social Norms, and the Marriage Penalty: Evidence from South Asia (anglais)
A growing literature attributes gender inequality in labor market outcomes in part to the reduction in female labor supply after childbirth, the child penalty. However, if social norms constrain married...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10946 Date du document: 7 octobre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bussolo, Maurizio,Rexer, Jonah Matthew,Triyana, Margaret
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Women’s Labor Force Participation in Nepal : An Exploration of The Role of Social Norms (anglais)
Whether and the extent to which social norms matter for women’s labor force participation has been shown to vary by context. This paper presents rigorous evidence on how these relationships hold in the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10810 Date du document: 18 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Alaref, Jumana Jamal Subhi,Patil, Aishwarya Shivaji,Rahman, Tasmia,Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria
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Leveraging Women’s Views to Influence Gender Norms around Women Working : Evidence from an Online Intervention in Indonesia (anglais)
How to influence social norms that drive behavior in relation to women’s participation in employment is not well understood. Providing randomly selected participants with information on the extent of (i)...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10681 Date du document: 23 janvier 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cameron,Lisa,Contreras Suarez,Diana Stella,Setyonaluri,Diahhadi
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Endogenous Institutions and Economic Policy (anglais)
This paper proposes a new framework to model institutions and institutional change. It shows how moral agents, who strive to cooperate with others, can form institutions that facilitate cooperation. The...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10600 Date du document: 8 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Robinson,James Alan,Vostroknutov,Alexander,Vostroknutova,Ekaterina
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Rebel with a Cause : Effects of a Gender Norms Intervention for Adolescents in Somalia (anglais)
Gender inequality and restrictive norms are often reinforced and internalized during adolescence, influencing pivotal life choices. This paper presents results from a randomly-assigned gender norms intervention...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10567 Date du document: 13 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brar,Rajdev Kaur,Buehren,Niklas,Papineni,Sreelakshmi,Sulaiman,Munshi
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Religious Terrorism, Forced Migration, and Women’s Empowerment : Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency (anglais)
This paper examines the link between violent attacks of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, forced migration, and the empowerment of women in host communities. The paper finds positive effects of distant...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10524 Date du document: 23 août 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paola Elice,Martínez Flores,Fernanda,Reichert,Arndt R.
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Public Primary School Expansion, Gender-Based Crowding Out, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility (anglais)
From 1965 to 1985, the number of schools doubled in developing countries, but little is known about their impacts on intergenerational educational mobility. This paper studies the effects of 61,000 public...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10418 Date du document: 21 avril 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ahsan,Md. Nazmul,Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Discussion on proposed WBG Gender Strategy 2024-2030 with organizations and individuals focusing on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) - 12 April 2023 : Washington DC (anglais)
On April 12, 2023, the World Bank Group (WBG) held a discussion on the WBG Gender Strategy 2024-2030 with representatives from civil society, academia and others who focus sexual orientation and gender...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 192258 Date du document: 12 avril 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
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Identifying the Poor — Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates (anglais)
Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10209 Date du document: 17 octobre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Tetteh Baah,Samuel Kofi
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Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms : An Experiment within Facebook Messenger in India (anglais)
This paper experimentally tests the effectiveness of two short edutainment campaigns (under 25 minutes) delivered through Facebook Messenger at reshaping gender norms and reducing social acceptability...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10199 Date du document: 5 octobre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Donati,Dante,Orozco Olvera,Victor Hugo,Rao,Nandan Mark
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Social Norms and Gender Equality : A Descriptive Analysis for South Asia (anglais)
Despite decades of economic growth, gender inequality in South Asia remains remarkably high. Although not the only one, social norms are a crucial driver of various gender outcomes, including differential...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10142 Date du document: 16 août 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bussolo,Maurizio,Ezebuihe,Jessy Amarachi,Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria,Poupakis,Stavros,Rahman,Tasmia,Sarma,Nayantara
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Conflict and Girl Child Marriage : Global Evidence (anglais)
Child marriage has lasting negative health, human capital, and welfare consequences. Conflict settings are characterized by a number of complex changes that can potentially increase the risk of child marriage...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10135 Date du document: 3 août 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Krafft,Caroline Gould,Arango,Diana Jimena,Rubin,Amalia Hadas,Jocelyn,Kelly
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Women’s Labor Force Participation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq : A Study of Social and Psychological Barriers (anglais)
Women’s labor force participation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is very low, at 14 percent. This paper investigates a number of social and psychological barriers to participation, using recent methods...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10028 Date du document: 28 avril 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Iman,Sen,Afif,Zeina,Gauri,Varun,Mohamed,Gohdar