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A natural disaster and intimate partner violence: Evidence over time

In India, living in a state affected by the 2004 tsunami was associated with higher rates of IPV immediately after the disaster. 

Smitha Rao (2020)
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Identities and public policies: Unexpected Effects of Political Reservations for Women in India

Gender quotas in India benefit descriptive and substantive representation for women and low-caste individuals.

Guilhem Cassan, Lore Vandewalle (2021)
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The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Employment opportunities for refugees significantly boosted their psychological well being. For women refugees, it also increased their perceptions of household power and intolerance for intimate partner violence.

Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra (2022)
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Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India. 

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)
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Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.  

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (2019)
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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By directly depositing wages into women’s own bank accounts paired with information sessions teaching them how to use bank accounts, India’s public workfare program increased female labor force participation in Madhya Pradesh.

Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore (2021)
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Effects of health behavior change intervention through women’s self-help groups on maternal and newborn health practices and related inequalities in rural India: A quasi-experimental study

In India, women from most marginalized populations disproportionately benefit from women’s self-help groups receiving maternal and newborn health behavior change communication interventions.  

Avishek Hazra, Yamini Atmavilas, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Raj Kumar Verma, Jaleel Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, P.S. Mohanan, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Laili Irani (2019)
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What explains low female political representation? Evidence from survey experiments in Japan

Supply-side factors, such as the heavy burden of family duties and societal expectations, are the primary factors that discourage women from running for public office, leading to low representation of women in politics in Japan. Demand-side factors, such as voters' opinions of female candidates, were not significant determinants of this issue. 

Rieko Kage, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Seiki Tanaka (2019)
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Empowered by Absence: Does male out-migration empower female household heads left behind?

Women from households with male migrants are more likely to own assets than women from non-immigrant households; however, there is no improvement in their decision-making over productive use of resources.

Adnan M.S. Fakir, Naveen Abedin (2020)
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The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence From India

Evidence from India suggests gender-targeted cash transfer programs can empower women in household decision-making processes but have little effect on household expenditures, savings, income, or nutrition.
 

Ingvild Almås, Vincent Somville, Lore Vandewalle (2020)
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A natural disaster and intimate partner violence: Evidence over time

In India, living in a state affected by the 2004 tsunami was associated with higher rates of IPV immediately after the disaster. 

Smitha Rao (2020)
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The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Employment opportunities for refugees significantly boosted their psychological well being. For women refugees, it also increased their perceptions of household power and intolerance for intimate partner violence.

Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra (2022)
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Gender Attitudes in adolescence: evaluating the Girl Rising gender-sensitization program in India

Gender sensitization programs revealed positive results in guiding adolescents towards equitable views and positively influence their understanding of gender norms.  

Amita N. Vyas, G. Malhotra, N.C. Nagaraj, M. Landry (2019)
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Effects of health behavior change intervention through women’s self-help groups on maternal and newborn health practices and related inequalities in rural India: A quasi-experimental study

In India, women from most marginalized populations disproportionately benefit from women’s self-help groups receiving maternal and newborn health behavior change communication interventions.  

Avishek Hazra, Yamini Atmavilas, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Raj Kumar Verma, Jaleel Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, P.S. Mohanan, Dileep V. Mavalankar, Laili Irani (2019)
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Empowered by Absence: Does male out-migration empower female household heads left behind?

Women from households with male migrants are more likely to own assets than women from non-immigrant households; however, there is no improvement in their decision-making over productive use of resources.

Adnan M.S. Fakir, Naveen Abedin (2020)
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Identities and public policies: Unexpected Effects of Political Reservations for Women in India

Gender quotas in India benefit descriptive and substantive representation for women and low-caste individuals.

Guilhem Cassan, Lore Vandewalle (2021)
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Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment

Light-touch, employer-led interventions did not break down opposition to women’s employment in Karnataka, India. 

Joshua T. Dean, Seema Jayachandran (2019)
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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By directly depositing wages into women’s own bank accounts paired with information sessions teaching them how to use bank accounts, India’s public workfare program increased female labor force participation in Madhya Pradesh.

Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore (2021)
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What explains low female political representation? Evidence from survey experiments in Japan

Supply-side factors, such as the heavy burden of family duties and societal expectations, are the primary factors that discourage women from running for public office, leading to low representation of women in politics in Japan. Demand-side factors, such as voters' opinions of female candidates, were not significant determinants of this issue. 

Rieko Kage, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Seiki Tanaka (2019)
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The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence From India

Evidence from India suggests gender-targeted cash transfer programs can empower women in household decision-making processes but have little effect on household expenditures, savings, income, or nutrition.
 

Ingvild Almås, Vincent Somville, Lore Vandewalle (2020)
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