More than 98 million adolescent girls are not in school. Can girls inuence their schooling without changes in their family's economic environment?

Some agricultural practices, such as irrigation, have the potential to buffer seasonal dietary gaps and through increased production and consumption improve diets, particularly of the rural poor relying on subsistence farming but also for rural an

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There is an enormous interest in development interventions aimed at reducing behavioural poverty traps, including by raising women's and girls' aspirations, or future-oriented goals.

Although migration remains crucial for economic development, financial constraints may limit individual ability to migrate.

Approximately 7.3 million births occur annually among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries.

Experimental evidence from women-owned microenterprises in Ethiopia. Post-training surveys find that business training improves profits & sales.

Suboptimal dietary intake is a critical cause of poor maternal nutrition, with several adverse consequences both for mothers and for their children.

We develop an analytical framework based on the work of Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and use it to examine how identity – proxied by agreement with statements reflecting patriarchal notions of gender roles – affects the trade-off between the time wo

Women play important roles at different nodes of both agricultural and off-farm value chains, but in many countries their contributions are either underestimated or limited by prevailing societal norms or gender-specific barriers.

Lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members can lead to both losses & biases as fatigue grows during interviews.

Droughts are associated with several societal ills, especially in developing economies that rely on rainfed agriculture.