Translating Research into Action
With its Gender Action Portal, the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School provides scientific evidence—based on experiments in the field and in the laboratory—on the impact of policies, strategies and organizational practices aimed at advancing gender equity to help translate research into action and take successful interventions to scale.
Judges with daughters vote more often in a feminist direction on gender related cases.
Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women’s Issues?
Adam Glynn,
Maya Sen
Enabling a woman to make her own decision about having children -- independently from her husband -- can reduce unwanted pregnancies.
Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia
Nava Ashraf,
Erica Field,
Jean Lee