Documentos e informes
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Asking Better Questions : The Effect of Changing Investment Organizations’ Evaluation Practices on Gender Disparities in Funding Innovation (Inglés)
Female innovators raise fewer resources from investors, even when their ventures are similar to those of all-male teams. Efforts to mitigate the disparities have typically focused on changing how founders...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10625 Fecha del documento: 4 de diciembre de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Miller,Amisha,Lall,Saurabh A.,Goldstein,Markus P.,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
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Two Sides of Gender : Sex, Power, and Adolescence (Inglés)
Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10072 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Shah,Manisha,Seager,Jennifer,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Goldstein,Markus P.
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A Seat at the Table: The Role of Information, Conditions, and Voice in Redistributing Intra-household Property Rights (Inglés)
This paper evaluates different policy instruments to increase demand for gender equality in formal land ownership among married couples in rural Uganda. The authors do so in the context of a land titling...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 174762 Fecha del documento: 28 de febrero de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cherchi,Ludovica,Goldstein,Markus P.,Habyarimana,James Paul,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,O'Sullivan,Michael B.,Udry,Christopher Robert
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Empowering Women Farmers : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mozambique : Empowering Women Farmers : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mozambique (Inglés)
These results show how a psychological mindset training targeted to women farmers can lead to greater investment and entrepreneurship, helping their households transition out of subsistence farming and...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 166128 Fecha del documento: 16 de noviembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
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Women’s Land Tenure Security and the Environment : Evidence from Africa (Inglés)
More secure rights can increase a farmer’s incentive to invest in their land, boosting productivity, and thus reducing the need to clear more land. Land tenure insecurity can lead a farmer to over-farm...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 175849 Fecha del documento: 8 de noviembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
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Coping with COVID-19 Shocks in Western Uganda (Inglés)
In Western Uganda, women farmers and their households were facing widespread agricultural and non-agricultural income shocks in September 2020, indicating a protracted crisis. To cope with these shocks...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 165302 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Sharma,Ambika,Gruver,Ariel Rose,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,O'Sullivan,Michael B.
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Are Mobile Savings the Silver Bullet to Help Women Grow Their Businesses? (Inglés)
In Tanzania and Indonesia, we promoted the expansion of mobile savings accounts among women micro-entrepreneurs and provided them with business related training. In doing so, we simultaneously relaxed...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 130417 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bastian,Gautam Gustav,Bianchi,Iacopo,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Goldstein,Markus P.,Jaluka,Tanvi,Knowles,James C.,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Kartaadipoetra,Firman Witoelar
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Empowering girls triggers their brothers to compete : Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda (Inglés)
This brief has key messages through an experiment in Uganda, we find that empowering adolescent girls triggers a surge in their brothers’ competitiveness.Understanding preferences for competition is important...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 109367 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Vasilaky,Kathryn