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Fertility, Child Work, and Schooling Consequences of Family Planning Programs: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Family planning programs can significantly decrease lifetime fertility, but have no impact on child work and schooling.

Nistha Sinha (2005)

Gender Picture Priming: It Works With Denotative and Connotative Primes

Physical objects and words encountered in every-day life evoke social meanings around gender.

Kristi M. Lemm, Marilyn Dabady, Mahzarin R Banaji (2005)

Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India

Women political leaders prioritize public goods that are of concern to women and female citizens are more engaged in civic discussion when women hold public office.

Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo (2004)

Seeing is Believing: Exposure to Counterstereotypic Women Leaders and its Effect on the Malleability of Automatic Gender Stereotyping

Women who are exposed to female leaders – in naturally occurring environments or in laboratory settings – exhibit fewer automatic stereotypes about women as a group.

Nilanjana Dasgupta, Shaki Asgari (2004)

Gender, Perceived Competence, and Power Displays: Examining Verbal Interruptions in a Group Context

Both men and women display power in groups by interrupting speakers when the groups are predominantly male, though not in female-dominated groups.

Leonard Karakowsky, Kenneth McBey, Diane L Miller (2004)

How an Earnings Supplement Can Affect Union Formation among Low-Income Single Mothers

Welfare payments to single mothers in Canada with children had opposite effects in different provinces on marriage and cohabitation decisions, suggesting social norms overrode economic incentives.

Kristen Harknett, Lisa A Gennetian (2003)

Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences

Women perform worse than men in competitive environments, even if they are able to perform similarly to men in the absence of competition.

Uri Gneezy, Muriel Niederle, Aldo Rustichini (2003)

Children and Mothers in War: An Outcome Study of a Psychosocial Intervention Program

Post-war psychosocial counseling for mothers leads to positive physical and psychological outcomes for their children.

Ragnhild Dybdahl (2001)

Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians

“Blind” orchestra auditions reduce sex-biased hiring and increase the number of female musicians.

Claudia Goldin, Cecilia Rouse (2000)

Effects of Entertainment-Education Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning Behavior in Tanzania

Nationally broadcast soap operas can be an effective awareness campaign to influence fertility-related behavior and increase the use of family planning measures.

Everett M. Rogers, Peter W. Vaughan, Ramadhan M.A. Swalehe, Nagesh Rao, Peer Svankerud, Suruchi Sood (1999)