Impact Initiative - Gender: Recent submissions
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The Lion's Share: An Experimental Analysis of Polygamy in Northern Nigeria
(The University of Chicago Press, 2019)We use simple public goods games to investigate spousal behavior in Kano, northern Nigeria, one of the modern heartlands of polygyny. Most partners keep back at least half of their endowment from the common pool, but we ... -
Spousal Control and Efficiency of Intra-household Decision-Making: Experiments among Married Couples in India, Ethiopia and Nigeria
(Springer Nature, 2019)Given the importance of the household as a resource allocation mechanism, considerable interest exists in its efficiency. Most of the non-experimental evidence for inefficiency comes from West African farm households in ... -
Randomized Control Trials and Qualitative Assessments: What Do They Tell Us About the Immediate and Long-Term Assessments of Productive Safety Nets for Women in Extreme Poverty in West Bengal?
(London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of International Development, 2020-01)This paper is intended to show the strengths, weaknesses and potential complementarities of different methodological approaches to impact assessment. It reports on the approach and findings reported by a randomized control ... -
Women's Access to Market Opportunities in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa: Barriers, Opportunities and Policy Challenges
(London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of International Development, 2019)This report builds on the contributions to a workshop organised by the International Department and the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) in collaboration with Ashoka University ... -
Poverty and Conflict
(University of Birmingham, 10/2016)Poverty and conflict are widely understood to be closely interconnected; with poverty making countries more prone to civil war, and armed conflict weakening governance and economic performance, thus increasing the risk of ... -
Towards a “fourth generation” of approaches to HIV/AIDS management: creating contexts for effective community mobilisation
(2010)Many biomedical and behavioural HIV/AIDS programmes aimed at prevention, care and treatment have disappointing outcomes because of a lack of effective community mobilisation. But community mobilisation is notoriously ... -
Food security, food price and income trends in Dhanusha district, Nepal between 2005 and 2011
(2012)Household food security is determined by availability, access and utilisation of food. Although the Terai is Nepal’s ‘bread basket’, the poor lack access to foods. Hence, in Dhanusha district, MIRA/UCL monitored food ... -
Mutable meanings: gender equality in education and international rights frameworks
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Planning adaptive health systems: the climate challenge
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MDG 3 and the negotiation of gender in international education organisations
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)