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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.

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)

Investments, Time Preferences, and Public Transfers Paid to Women

When women receive public assistance payments, they channel resources to benefit all household members, particularly children.

Luis Rubalcava, Graciela Teruel, Duncan Thomas (2009)

Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

Moving from poor to more affluent neighborhoods benefits adults and female youth, but has adverse effects for male youth.

Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman (2007)

Neighborhood and Gender Effects on Family Processes: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Program

A residential relocation program had minimal impact on the dynamics of participating families, though families who relocated to low poverty neighborhoods display harsher parenting practices toward their daughters.

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Tama Leventhal (2005)

Topic Overview

Poverty Alleviation

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)

Investments, Time Preferences, and Public Transfers Paid to Women

When women receive public assistance payments, they channel resources to benefit all household members, particularly children.

Luis Rubalcava, Graciela Teruel, Duncan Thomas (2009)

Neighborhood and Gender Effects on Family Processes: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Program

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Tama Leventhal (2005)

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)

Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

Moving from poor to more affluent neighborhoods benefits adults and female youth, but has adverse effects for male youth.

Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman (2007)