Women’s Empowerment in Action - Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa - 2015-06

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Title
Women’s Empowerment in Action - Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa - 2015-06
Author
Oriana Bandiera; Niklas Buehren; Robin Burgess; Markus Goldstein; Selim Gulesci; Imran Rasul; Munshi Sulaiman
Year
2015
Abstract
This analysis evaluates a policy intervention attempting to jump-start adolescent women’s empowerment in the world’s second youngest country: Uganda. The intervention relaxes the human capital constraints that adolescent girls face by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction and marriage. The findings suggest women’s economic and social empowerment can be jump-started through the combined provision of hard and soft skills, in the form of vocational and life skills, and is not necessarily held back by binding constraints arising from social norms or low aspirations.
Resource Subject
  • Youth Employment
  • Gender
Keywords/Access Points
women empowerment; marriage; childbearing; human capital investment; social norms; gender equity;
Geographic Locations
  • Africa
Language
  • English
Demographic Groups
  • Youth
  • Women
Special Collections
  • Knowledge Exchange Resources
Archival Record ID
MFA.2024.1776