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...
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 |
Similar Items
-
Electoral Rules and Political Selection: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan
by: Beath, Andrew, et al.
Published: (2018) -
Direct democracy and resource allocation: Experimental evidence from Afghanistan
by: Beath, Andrew, et al.
Published: (2020) -
The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in Afghanistan
by: Beath, Andrew, et al.
Published: (2017) -
Aid to empower
by: The Malay Mail,
Published: (2013) -
Empowering women through education
Published: (2007)