Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa (English)

The authors evaluate a multifaceted policy intervention attempting to jumpstart adolescent women’s empowerment in Uganda, a context in which sixty percent of the population are aged below twenty. The intervention aims to relax human capital constraints that adolescent girls face by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction and marriage. We find that four years post-intervention, adolescent girls in treated...

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Bandiera,Oriana;

Buehren,Niklas;

Burgess,Robin Stuart L.;

Goldstein,Markus P.;

Gulesci,Selim;

Rasul,Imran;

Sulaimany,Munshi;
Document Date
2018/12/01
Report Number
134122
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2019/01/28
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
Keywords
adolescent girl

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Bandiera,Oriana; Buehren,Niklas; Burgess,Robin Stuart L.; Goldstein,Markus P.; Gulesci,Selim; Rasul,Imran; Sulaimany,Munshi.

Women’s Empowerment in Action : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/223031548745557611

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