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Poverty Alleviation

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Poverty Alleviation

Poverty is a multi-faceted cyclical problem that stems from structural and social barriers, stigmas, and unequal resource allocation. Learn about the innovative strategies that organizations and governments are utilizing to reduce poverty and its disproportionate harm to women.

Intended versus unintended consequences of migration restriction policies: evidence from a natural experiment in Indonesia

Restrictive migration policy , which restricted people from emigrating (migrating away) from their country of origin, deteriorated the local labor market by pushing a higher percentage of women than men into informal and agricultural work but also led to an increase in junior secondary school enrollment.

Mattia Makovec, Ririn S. Purnamasari, Matteo Sandi, Astrid Savitiri (2018)

Do Financial Education Interventions for Women from Poor Households Impact Their Financial Behaviors? Experimental Evidence from India

One-day financial education training programs may be cost-effective interventions for improving the financial behaviors of women from poor households.

Aditi Bhutoria, Anna Vignoles (2018)

Does Gender Matter for Small Business Performance? Experimental Evidence from India

The gender profit gap in micro-enterprises is likely to be driven by gender differences in access to capital and business inputs rather than seller behavior or demand-side constraints.

Solène Delecourt, Odyssia Ng (2019)

A Multifaceted Program Causes Lasting Progress for the Very Poor: Evidence from Six Countries

A multidimensional intervention program improves the lives of the extreme poor with effects lasting up to a year later, including increasing women’s empowerment in the short-term.

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, William Parienté, Jeremy Shapiro, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry (2015)

Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

A business skills training program for female microfinance clients in Peru had little effect improving business performance and did not increase women’s decision making power at home.

Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia (2011)

Gender Roles and Non-Cooperative Behavior: Field Experiment on the Effect of Asymmetric Information on Intra-Household Allocation in Ghana

Unanticipated windfall income is used for shared household needs when allocated to a husband or wife publicly, but behavior changes when it is given privately – men spend on personal consumption, while women save or loan to personal networks.

Carolina Castilla, Thomas Walker (2013)

Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Access to a formalized savings account substantially improves female small-business owners’ overall savings and investment in business operations in Kenya.

Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson (2013)

Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment

Conditional cash transfers improve educational outcomes, while at the same time, unconditional cash transfers reduce teenage pregnancy and marriage.

Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh, Berk Özler (2011)

Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Vocational training programs increase young women’s actual wages and opportunities for paid employment in the formal sector.

Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler, Costas Meghir (2011)

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Marriage and Divorce

Conditional cash transfers to women, aimed at increasing children’s school enrollment and family health in Mexico, had modest effects on their marriage or divorce rates.

Gustavo J. Bobonis (2011)

Topic Overview

Poverty Alleviation

Do Financial Education Interventions for Women from Poor Households Impact Their Financial Behaviors? Experimental Evidence from India

One-day financial education training programs may be cost-effective interventions for improving the financial behaviors of women from poor households.

Aditi Bhutoria, Anna Vignoles (2018)

A Multifaceted Program Causes Lasting Progress for the Very Poor: Evidence from Six Countries

A multidimensional intervention program improves the lives of the extreme poor with effects lasting up to a year later, including increasing women’s empowerment in the short-term.

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, William Parienté, Jeremy Shapiro, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry (2015)

Gender Roles and Non-Cooperative Behavior: Field Experiment on the Effect of Asymmetric Information on Intra-Household Allocation in Ghana

Carolina Castilla, Thomas Walker (2013)

Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment

Conditional cash transfers improve educational outcomes, while at the same time, unconditional cash transfers reduce teenage pregnancy and marriage.

Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh, Berk Özler (2011)

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Marriage and Divorce

Conditional cash transfers to women, aimed at increasing children’s school enrollment and family health in Mexico, had modest effects on their marriage or divorce rates.

Gustavo J. Bobonis (2011)

Intended versus unintended consequences of migration restriction policies: evidence from a natural experiment in Indonesia

Mattia Makovec, Ririn S. Purnamasari, Matteo Sandi, Astrid Savitiri (2018)

Does Gender Matter for Small Business Performance? Experimental Evidence from India

The gender profit gap in micro-enterprises is likely to be driven by gender differences in access to capital and business inputs rather than seller behavior or demand-side constraints.

Solène Delecourt, Odyssia Ng (2019)

Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

A business skills training program for female microfinance clients in Peru had little effect improving business performance and did not increase women’s decision making power at home.

Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia (2011)

Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Access to a formalized savings account substantially improves female small-business owners’ overall savings and investment in business operations in Kenya.

Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson (2013)

Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Vocational training programs increase young women’s actual wages and opportunities for paid employment in the formal sector.

Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler, Costas Meghir (2011)