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Using frameworks on gendered transitions to adulthood, we analyse nationally-representative, sex-disaggregated data from 36 countries to examine how structural transformation (share of GDP from non-agriculture) and rural transformation (agricultur
Efficiency and status in polygynous pastoralist households
Decision-making structures may be different across polygynous and monogamous households, leading to different economic outcomes and requiring different targeting of anti-poverty programmes.
This study relies on a unique precrisis baseline and five-year follow-up to investigate the effects of emergency school feeding and generalised food distribution (GFD) on children’s schooling during conflict in Mali.
The feminisation of agriculture with chinese characteristics
Women's property rights and gendered policies
This paper evaluates effects of community-level women's property and inheritance rights on women's economic outcomes using a 13 year longitudinal panel from rural Tanzania.
Maquiladoras and market mamas: women's work and childcare in Guatemala City and Accra
This paper analyses work, childcare, and earnings of mothers in the slums of Guatemala City and Accra.
Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs: experience from South Africa
Since the transition to democracy, South African public works programs are to involve community participation, and be targeted to the poor and women.