Empowering Women through Development Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan

In societies with widespread gender discrimination, development programs with gender quotas are considered a way to improve women's economic, political, and social status. Using a randomized field experiment across 500 Afghan villages, we examine the effects of a development program that mandat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christia, Fotini, Beath, Andrew, Enikolopov, Ruben
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83869
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1076-9879