Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
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- Oriana Bandiera & Niklas Buehren & Robin Burgess & Markus Goldstein & Selim Gulesci & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman, 2020. "Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 12(1), pages 210-259, January.
- Oriana Bandiera & Niklas Buehren & Robin Burgess & Markus Goldstein & Selim Gulesci & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman, 2014. "Women's empowerment in action: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa," CSAE Working Paper Series 2014-30, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
- Oriana Bandiera & Niklas Buehren & Robin Burgess & Markus Goldstein & Selim Gulesci & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman, 2014. "Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 050, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
- Bandiera, Oriana & Buehren, Niklas & Burgess, Robin & Goldstein, Markus & Gulesci, Selim & Rasul, Imran & Sulaiman, Munshi, 2020. "Women’s empowerment in action: evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 102465, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Bandiera, Oriana & Burgess, Robin & Goldstein, Markus & Buehren, Niklas & Gulesci, Selim & Rasul, Imran & Sulaiman, Munshi, 2014. "Women’s empowerment in action: evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 58207, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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JEL classification:
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2019-01-07 (Africa)
- NEP-LMA-2019-01-07 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
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