We study the impact of one-season transfers framed for agricultural investment combined with agricultural support services on decision making among smallholder households in Senegal and Malawi using data from randomized control trials.

Edutainment shows promise in changing behavior at scale, yet little is known about how to maximize impacts.

Measures of violence against women and girls (VAWG) are widely collected in surveys, yet estimates are acknowledged to be lower-bounds of the true prevalence.

Background: Edutainment aims to spread educational messages in an entertaining way, and often reaches large audiences.

Using primary survey data collected in Tajikistan, Nepal and Senegal, three countries with high male outmigration rates, this study analyzes the impacts of migration on the empowerment of women who remain in rural areas.

Household economists have recently begun to use laboratory experiments to study behavior between spouses. While several connect inefficiency in the lab to specific constraints on decision-making (e.g.

Le Sénégal a signalé son premier cas de COVID-19 le 2 mars 2020, déclenchant ainsi, deux semaines plus tard, l’instauration de mesures barrières par le gouvernement pour ralentir la propagation du virus.

Senegal reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 2, 2020.

Globally, COVID-19 has exposed farmers to high levels of income insecurity, underlining the importance of building resilience among male and female farmers.

A look beyond the identity of household decisionmakers to the rationale behind who makes decisions and whether that rationale factors in household outcomes.

We study decision-making in dairy farming households in Senegal and investigate respondents’ perceptions of why a particular person made the decision. Using vignettes, we ask respondents how similar they are to five types of households.

Health-related incentives to reward effort or commitment are commonplace in many professional contracts throughout the world.