Policy Briefs

·       Access to Finance for Female-led Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018)

·       Are Mobile Savings the Silver Bullet to Help Women Grow Their Businesses? (2018)

·       Can Job Training Decrease Women’s Self-Defeating Biases?: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria (2018)

·       Caring about Carework: Lifting Constraints to the Productivity of Women Farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018)

·       Designing Targeted Business Trainings for Impact: Insights from a Women Entrepreneurs' Program in Tanzania (2018)

·       Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan: What Do We Know? (2018)

·       Gender Gap in Earnings in Vietnam: Why Do Vietnamese Women Work in Lower Paid Occupations? (2018)

·       Integrating Biographical Research into Focus Group Discussions (2018)

·       Overcoming Behavioral Biases in Job Search: The Value of Action Planning (2018)

·       Overcoming Information Asymmetry in Job Search: The Power of a Reference Letter (2018)

·       Perceptions of Precariousness: A Qualitative Study of Constraints Underlying Gender Disparities in Mongolia's Labor Market (2018)

·       Does Access to Preschool Increase Women’s Employment? (2018)

·       Personal Initiative Training Leads to Remarkable Growth of Women-Owned Small Businesses in Togo (2018)

·       The Impact of Strengthening Agricultural Extension Services: Evidence from Ethiopia (2018)

·       Why do Indonesian Adolescent Boys Have Poorer Schooling Outcomes than Girls? (2018)

·       Women Farmers in Timor-Leste: Bridging the Productivity Gap (2018)

·       Working Under Pressure: Improving Labor Productivity through Financial Innovation (2018)

Working Papers

·       Are Mobile Savings the Silver Bullet to Help Women Grow Their Businesses? (2018)

·       Better Loans or Better Borrowers? Impact of Meso-credit on Female-owned Enterprises in Ethiopia (2018)

·       Can Job Training Decrease Women’s Self-Defeating Biases?: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria (2018)

·       Can Mothers Afford to Work in Poland: Labor Supply Incentives of Social Benefits and Childcare Costs (2018)

·       Caring about Carework: Lifting Constraints to the Productivity of Women Farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018)

·       Competing Priorities: Women's Microenterprises and Household Relationships (2018)

·       Disruptive Finance: Using Psychometrics to Overcome Collateral Constraints in Ethiopia (2018)

·       Electrification and Household Welfare: Evidence from Pakistan (2018)

·       Gender-transformative Bandebereho Couples' Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Reproductive and Maternal Health and Violence Prevention in Rwanda (2018)

·       Improving the Integration of Women in Kosovo's Labor Market: What Can the Public Employment Agency Do? (2018)

·       Teaching Personal Initiative Beats Traditional Training in Boosting Small Business in West Africa (2018)

·       The Impact of Strengthening Agricultural Extension Services: Evidence from Ethiopia (2018)

·       What is the Role of Men in Connecting Women to Cash Crop Markets? Evidence from Uganda (2018)

·       What Works for Women: Assessment of Interventions for Economic Empowerment of Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018)

·       What Works for Women: Assessment of Interventions for Economic Empowerment of Women in Serbia (2018)

·       What Works for Women: Assessment of Interventions for Economic Empowerment of Women in Kosovo (2018)

·       What Works for Women: Assessment of Interventions for Economic Empowerment of Women in FYR Macedonia (2018)

·       Women Farmers in Timor-Leste: Bridging the Productivity Gap (2018)

Reports

·       Access to Finance for Female-led Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018)

·       Asylum Seekers in the European Union: Building Evidence to Inform Policy Making (2018)

·       Closing the Gender Gap: Opportunities for the Women's Mobile Financial Services Market in Bangladesh (2018)

·       Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – Understanding How Gender Norms in MNA Impact Female Employment Outcomes (2018)

·       Gender Gap in Earnings in Vietnam: Why Do Vietnamese Women Work in Lower Paid Occupations? (2018)

·       Getting to Work: Unlocking Women's Potential in Sri Lanka's Labor Force (2018)

·       Options for Aged Care in China: Building an Efficient and Sustainable Aged Care System (2018)

·       Perceptions of Precariousness: A Qualitative Study of Constraints Underlying Gender Disparities in Mongolia's Labor Market (2018)

·       Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Indonesia (2018)

·       Revitalizing Pakistan’s Fisheries: Options for Sustainable Development (2018)

·       Shadows of Conflict in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka: Socioeconomic Challenges and a Way Forward (2018)

·       Unlocking Opportunities for Women and Business: A Toolkit of Actions and Strategies for Oil, Gas, and Mining Companies (2018)

·       Wild Harvest Value Chain Assessment Report (2018)

Women Wavemakers: Practical Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Coding Bootcamps (2018)

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020

Policy Briefs

·       Are Cash Transfers Better Chunky or Smooth? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of a Cash Transfer Program in Northern Nigeria (2017)

·       Could Childcare Services Improve Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia? (2017)

·       Female Enrollment in Male-Dominated Vocational Training Courses: Preferences and Prospects (2017)

·       Gender Dimensions of Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade in Cambodia and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (2017)

·       Promoting Women's Access to Economic Opportunities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2017)

·       Promoting Women's Access to Economic Opportunities in Kosovo (2017)

·       Promoting Women's Access to Economic Opportunities in Montenegro (2017)

·       Sustainable Impact on Girls’ Lives: Skills Development Programs for Adolescent Girls (2017)

·       Time and Money: A Study of Labor Constraints for Female Cotton Producers in Cote d’Ivoire (2017)

·       The “Gender Pension Gap” in the Aging Societies of East Asia (2017)

Working Papers

·       A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice (2017)

·       Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap? The Effect of Plan-Making Prompts on Job Search and Employment (2017)

·       Crossovers: Female Entrepreneurs Who Enter Male Sectors (2017)

·       Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania (2017)

·       Gender and Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions (2017)

·       Gender and Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions (2017)

·       Glass barriers: Constraints to Women's Small-scale Cross-border Trade in Cambodia and Lao PDR (2017)

·       Governance and Women's Economic and Political Participation: Power Inequalities, Formal Constraints and Norms (2017)

·       Labor Market Discrimination and Sorting: Evidence from South Africa (2017)

·       Measuring the Quality of Jobs in Turkey (2017)

·       Measuring Women’s Agency (2017)

·       Precarious Drop: Reassessing Patterns of Female Labor Force Participation in India (2017)

·       The Motherhood Penalty and Female Employment in Urban India (2017)

·       The Value of Reference Letters (2017)

·       Underreporting of Gender-based Violence in Kerala, India: An Application of the List Randomization Method (2017)

·       Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa (2017)
  

Reports

·       Diagnostic Study of Barriers for Strengthening Livelihoods of Low-Income Rural Women in Uzbekistan (2017)

·       Gender Norms in Flux: Bride Kidnapping and Women’s Civic Participation in the Kyrgyz Republic (2017)

·       Mobile Technologies and Digitized Data to Promote Access to Finance for Women in Agriculture (2017)

·       Revealing the Missing Link: Private Sector Supply-Side Readiness for Primary Maternal Health Services in Indonesia (2017)

·       Women-Owned Enterprises in Vietnam: Perceptions and Potential – Executive Summary (2017)

·       Women-Owned Enterprises in Vietnam: Perceptions and Potential (2017) 

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020

Policy Briefs

·       As Good as the Company They Keep? Improving Farmers’ Social Networks (2016)

·       Empowering girls triggers their brothers to compete: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda (2016)

·       From Learning to Earning: An Impact Evaluation of the Digital Opportunity Trust Entrepreneurship Training (2016)

·       Intra-household Dynamics and the Design of Social Protection Programs: The Case of Polygamous Households in North Burkina Faso (2016)

·       Securing Property Rights for Women and Men in Rural Benin (2016)  

·       The Gender-dimensions of Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China (2016)

Working Papers

·       Formalizing Rural Land Rights in West Africa: Early Evidence from a Randomized Impact Evaluation in Benin (2016)

·       Soft Skills for Hard Constraints: Evidence from High-Achieving Female Farmers (2016)

·       What Works for Women in the Western Balkans: A Stocktaking of Economic Empowerment Projects (2016)

·       Women’s Empowerment, Sibling Rivalry and Competitiveness – Evidence from a Lab Experiment and a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda (2016)

Reports

·       Assessment of Gender Impacts of ITS (2016)

·       Guideline for Incorporating Gender into ITS Planning, Design and Operation (2016)

·       Bosnia & Herzegovina: Economic Mobility, Jobs and Gender (2016)

·       Come and See the System in Place: Mediation Capabilities in Papua New Guinea's Urban Settlements (2016)

·       Community-based Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of Evidence and Essential Steps to Adaptation (2016)

·       Gender-dimensions of Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China (2016)

·       Government Expenditure on Health in Lao PDR: Overall Trends and Findings from a Health Center Survey (2016)

·       Live Long and Prosper: Aging in East Asia and Pacific (2016)

·       Mobile Phone Panel Surveys in Developing Countries: A Practical Guide for Microdata Collection (2016)

·       Supply and Demand for Child Care Services in Turkey (2016)

·       The Business Case for Women's Employment in Agribusiness (2016)

·       Voices of Europe and Central Asia: New Insights on Shared Prosperity and Jobs (2016)

·       Why Should We Care about Care? The role of Childcare and Eldercare in Serbia (2016)

·       Why Should We Care about Care? The role of Childcare and Eldercare in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2016)

·       Why Should We Care about Care? The role of Childcare and Eldercare in Kosovo (2016)

Why Should We Care about Care? The role of Childcare and Eldercare in FYR Macedonia (2016)

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020

Policy Briefs

·       Breaking the Metal Ceiling: Female Entrepreneurs Who Succeed in Male-dominated Sectors

·       Costin the Gender Gap (2015)

·       Female Entrepreneurs Who Succeed in Male-dominated Sectors in Ethiopia (2015)

·       From Cash to Accounts: Switching How Women Save in Uganda (2015)

Working Papers

·       Breaking the Metal Ceiling: Female Entrepreneurs Who Succeed in Male-dominated Sectors (2015)

·       Bolivia - Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (2015)

·       Fertility Transition in Turkey – Who Is Most at Risk of Deciding against Child Arrival? (2015)

·       Gender, Mobility and Middle Class in Europe and Central Asia: Insights from Qualitative Research (2015)

·       How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates for the Balkans and Turkey (2015)

·       Maternity Leave and Women’s Labor Market Status in Kosovo: Five Key Messages (2015)    

·       Missing Women in the South Caucasus: Local Perceptions and Proposed Solutions (2015)

·       'Missing Girls' in the South Caucasus Countries: Trends, Possible Causes, and Policy Options (2015)

·       The Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda (2015)

·       The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen (2015)

Reports

·       Ethiopia Women Agribusiness Leaders Network Impact Evaluation: Baseline Survey Report (2015)

·       Europe and Central Asia - Why Should We Care about Care? The Role of Informal Childcare and Eldercare in Aging Societies in the ECA region (2015)

·       Haiti Adolescent Girl Initiative (AGI): Project Report (2015)

·       Men and Youth in Thailand’s Conflict-affected Deep South (2015)

·       Roads to Agency: Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency – A Comparative Assessment of Rural Transport Projects in Argentina, Nicaragua, and Peru (2015)

·       Serbia - Access to Justice for Poor Women and Men (2015)

·       Tools to understand social issues in energy tariff and subsidy reforms in Europe and Central Asia (2015)

·       Toward Gender-equitable Fisheries Management in Solomon Islands (2015)

·       Toward Gender-informed Energy Subsidy Reforms: Findings from Qualitative Studies in Europe and Central Asia (2015)

·       Women in Agriculture: The Impact of Male Out-Migration on Women’s Agency, Household Welfare, and Agricultural Productivity (2015)

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020

Working Papers

·       ICT in Support of Evidence Based Policy Making: Land and Gender in the Western Balkans (2014)

·       The Impact of an Adolescent Girls Employment Program - The EPAG Project in Liberia (2014)

·       Perceptions and Demand for Childcare and Eldercare Services in the Western Balkans: A Qualitative Study (2014)

Reports

·       Hem No Leit Tumas – Evidence for Improved Outcomes in Solomon Islands Women’s Literacy Programs (2014)

·       Levelling the Field: Improving Opportunities for Women Farmers in Africa (2014)

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020