Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality

Academic and Working Papers

• Access to Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship
• Assessing Workplace Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills in Africa: The ESTEEM Framework
• Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan
• Cash Is Queen: Local Economy Effects of Cash Transfers to Women in West Africa
• Certified to Stay? Long-Run Experimental Evidence on Land Formalization and Widows’ Tenure Security in Benin
• Collecting Accurate Data on Intimate Partner Violence: Learnings from Pakistan
• Conscious Coupling: Impact of a Skills Intervention to Address Intrahousehold Constraints for Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia
• Deciding Not to Decide: When Is There Power in Not Deciding?
• Does Free Sound Too Cheap? The Adverse Effect of a Randomized Text Message Campaign on Program Take-up
• Double Burden, Unequal Ground: Childcare Challenges and Work-Family Conflict for Low-Income Mothers in Urban Burkina Faso
• Gender Discrimination in Entrepreneurial Finance: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
• Gender Gaps in the Performance of Small Firms Evidence from Urban Peru
• Hairdressers and Well-being: Local Services Provision and Mental Health First Response
• How Laws Promote Economic Opportunities : A Review
• Mitigating the Impact of Household Expropriation on Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
• Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Cash for Work: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Tunisia
• Socioemotional Skills in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Temperature Anomalies as an Obstacle to Women’s Rights and Economic Empowerment?
• The barriers to female employment: Experimental evidence from Egypt
• The Unintended Impacts of an Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
• Unequal Burdens, Uneven Benefits: Applying a Gender Lens to the Analysis of Peru’s Fiscal System
• Women and Climate Adaptation in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Constraints and Research Priorities

Guidance Notes

• Gender Dimensions of Tanzania’s Labor Market 2024
• Guidance Note for Producing and Disseminating Gender Factbooks
• Public Finance Review Guidance Note: Fiscal Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

Journal Articles

• Better Loans or Better Borrowers? Lifting Credit Constraints for Women-Owned Firms in Ethiopia
• Cultivating Collaboration Through Joint Participation: Evidence from a Video-Based Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Extension Program in Ethiopia
• Determinants of Vocational Training Choices in High-Paying Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire: A Gender Perspective
• Impact of Inputs, Information, and Financial Services on the Adoption of a Biofortified Crop by Women Farmers in Uganda
• Impacts of Large School Grants and Admissions Algorithms on Student Achievement and Admissions Diversity: Evidence from High-Performing Kenyan Secondary Schools
• Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence from Urban India

Policy Briefs

• Building Entrepreneurial Mind-Sets: Evidence from a Large-Scale Educational Intervention in India
• Digital vs In-Person Business Training at Scale: Cautionary Lessons from a Randomized Trial in Ethiopia
• Keeping Girls In School: Lessons Learned from a School and Community-Based Case Management System
• Lessons from School-Related Gender-Based Violence Prevention Intervention in Zambia
• Mapping Childcare Gaps in Honduras
• Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Kenya
• Reducing Gender Gaps in Management: Experimental Evidence from Peru
• Sierra Leone’s Reform Journey to Advancing Female Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion
• The Digital Gender Divide: Women in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Digital Era
• The Unintended Impacts of an Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program in Rwanda

Reports

• A Girl Can Dream: Analyzing Aspirations, Gender Norms, and Influencers Among Girls and Women in Zimbabwe
• Accelerating Gender Equality in Somalia - Breaking Barriers, Creating Opportunities
• Ghana Country Policy and Institutional Assessment CPIA 2024
• How Can Mongolia Address the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy? : A Review of Promising Interventions Based on Global Evidence
• Making Job Platforms Work for Women : A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
• Mapping Childcare Programs and Gaps in Provision in Areas with Employment Opportunities for Women in Honduras
• Middle East and North Africa Regional Gender Action Plan 2025-2030
• Overcoming the Challenges Women Face in Technical and Vocational Training in Côte d’Ivoire
• Peru: Seizing Opportunities for Growth and Prosperity
• WE Finance Code Inception Report

Last Updated: Dec 22, 2025

Academic and Working Papers

• Breadwinners and Caregivers: Examining the Global Relationship between Gender Norms and Economic Behavior
• Can Public Credit Schemes Improve Access to Finance for Small Businesses? Evidence from Indonesia
• Cultivating Collaboration through Joint Participation: Evidence from a Video-Based Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Extension Program in Ethiopia
• Do Men Really Have Greater Socio-Emotional Skills Than Women? Evidence from Tanzanian Youth
• Empowering Adolescent Girls through Safe Spaces and Accompanying Measures in Côte d’Ivoire
• Explaining Gender Differences in Economic Outcomes in Burkina Faso
• Gender Discrimination in Entrepreneurial Finance: Experimental Evidence from EthiopiaPromoting Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Technologies by Women and Couples in Ethiopia
• Testing the Promise of Digital Scaling: In-Person versus App-Based Training for Women Entrepreneurs
• The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs
• The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women’s Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India
• When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency ? Evidence from the Rural Philippines
   

Guidance Notes

• Guidance Note for Producing and Disseminating Gender Factbooks
• How to note: Ruta para el acceso de la justicia
• Lao PDR Gender Factbook: Bridging Economic and Social Empowerment Gaps 2024
• Regional WAEMU Gender Factbook 2024
• WE Finance Code Guidelines for Country Implementation
• Women and Men in Burkina Faso 2023
• Women and Men in Djibouti 2024

Journal Articles

• A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice
• Assessing Admiration for Women Who Do "Men’s Work
• Biometric Monitoring, Service Delivery and Misreporting: Evidence from Healthcare in India
• Breadwinners and caregivers: Examining the global relationship between gender norms and economic behavior
• Do Factory Jobs Improve Welfare? Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
• Exploring the drivers of youth pursuing vocational training in high-paying sectors in Cote d'Ivoire
• Family Structure and Childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire: Distribution, drivers, and changes over time
• Multidimensionality of Landownership among Men and Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Role of personal network attributes in adoption of clean stoves among Congolese refugees in Rwanda
• Soft-skills, networking, and workforce entry: Impacts of a training program for recent graduates in Rwanda
• The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India
• To Defer or to Differ: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Cash Transfers in Nigerian Couples’ Decision–Making
• What We Can Learn When Impacts Fail to Replicate: Lessons from an Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Tanzania
• Who Uses Childcare Centers? Evidence from Burkina Faso

Policy Briefs

• Admired in Theory, Pushed Out in Practice: Challenges Faced by Women Pursuing Work in Male-dominated Sectors in Guinea, Conakry
• Attracting, Retaining & Promoting Women in the Workplace is Good for Business: Lessons from the Mashreq
• Combining Safe Spaces with Accompanying Measures: A Solution to Empower Adolescent Girls in Côte d’Ivoire
• Enterprising women: A decade of learning from Ethiopia’s Women Entrepreneurship Development project (WEDP)
• From collateral to cashflow: Expanding access to finance for Nigeria’s female business owners
• Labor Supply Complementarities in Urban Côte d‘Ivoire
• Leveraging Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) to Transform Gender Attitudes and Norms in Mashreq Countries
• Making Ethiopia's Financial Sector Work For Women: 10 Evidence-Based Ideas For Action
• Online and On Point: How Can We Help Female Entrepreneurs in Indonesia Digitize?
• Schoolgirls Not Brides: Secondary Education as a Shield Against Child Marriage
• The Nerds, the Cool and the Central: Peer Education and Teen Pregnancy in Brazil 
• Top Policy Lessons in Agriculture
• Top Policy Lessons in Women’s Property Rights
• Unleashing Aspirations While Ensuring Opportunities Could Help Reduce Teenage Pregnancy in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Women's Economic Empowerment in Africa

Reports

• Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions (Ghana)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Country Economic Memorandum-January 2024
• Driving Global Change WSBI-ESBG Commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Women Entrepreneur Finance Code 2024
• Formal Childcare in Jordan: Limited Services and Unmet Demand
• If Children Aren’t Full, Can Adults Eat?: Adaptation Mechanisms of Poor Households Facing Price Shocks in Côte d’Ivoire
• Indonesia Care Economy Policies and Programs Chapter for SSI (Care Economy in Indonesia report)-The Care Economy in Indonesia : A Pathway for Women’s Economic Participation and Social Well-being 
• Moldova Country Climate and Development Report
• Nigeria Development Update - Staying the Course: Progress Amid Pressing Challenges
• Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa
• Strengthening Gender Statistics - Indicator Mapping Template for Gender Factbooks
• Strengthening Gender Statistics- Data Visualization Training
• South Asia Development Update, October 2024: Women, Jobs, and Growth
• The Care Economy in Indonesia : A Pathway for Women’s Economic Participation and Social Well-being
• What Have We Learned from EAPGIL Research? Accomplishments and Lessons Learned from the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Gender Innovation Lab : 2016 – 2024  
• When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency ? Evidence from the Rural Philippines
• Women’s Economic Empowerment in Pakistan: An Evidence-Guided Toolkit for More Inclusive Policies

Last Updated: Dec 22, 2025

Policy Briefs

• How Do Shifts in Land Tenure Affect Farmers in the Philippines? 
  
• Breaking the Cycle of Intimate-partner Violence: Harm Reduction by Engaging Men in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  
• Designing and Implementing Low-Cost Childcare Solutions: Lessons from the Africa Gender Innovation Lab
  
• How Can a Community-based Approach Improve Large-Scale Mangrove Rehabilitation Efforts in Indonesia?
  
• Investing to Unlock the Potential of Nigeria’s Women Farmers
  
• Scalable Solutions to Close Gender Gaps in Nigeria
  
• The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code (WE Finance Code)
  
• Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls

• Engaging Men for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Overview of the Evidence

• Taking Control: How Financial Inclusion Impacts Labor Supply

• Navigating the Shadows: Unhappiness and Depression in the Middle East and North Africa

• Action Alert? Endemic Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

• Unequal Scarcity: A Gendered Analysis of Food Insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa

• Typology of Economic Women’s Groups Programs in South Asia

• Finding the Time and Labor to Farm: How Social Dynamics Drive Gender Differences in Agricultural Labor in Southern Nigeria

• Which Socio-Emotional Skills Matter Most for Women’s Earnings?: New Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

• Latin America and the Caribbean Gender Innovation Lab (LAC GIL) Country Gender Scorecards

• Evening the Credit Score? Impact of Psychometric Loan Appraisal for Women Entrepreneurs

• Insights from LSMS+: Women lag behind in asset ownership and are burdened with domestic work

• Policy Lessons on Supporting Women Entrepreneurs

• Increasing Female Labor Force Participation

• What Works in Supporting Women-led Businesses

• Placing Gender Equality at the Center of Climate Action

• Policy Lessons on Social Protection

• Policy Lessons on Agriculture

• Policy Lessons on Improving Education Outcomes

• Policy Lessons on Access to and Uptake of Childcare Services

• Policy Lessons on Women’s Land Titling

• Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls

• Policy Lessons on Reducing Gender-based Violence

• Policy Lessons on Facilitating Labor Markets

Working and Academic Papers 

• Asking Better Questions: The Effect of Changing Investment Organizations’Evaluation Practices on Gender Disparities in Funding Innovation
  
• Orange is the New Green: Addressing Barriers to Adoption of a Biofortified Crop by Women Farmers in Uganda
  
• Shifting Spousal Decision-Making Patterns: Whom You Target in an Agricultural Intervention Matters
  
• Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale: Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program
  
• The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
  

• Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors

• Gender and Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions

• Returns to Soft Skills Training in Rwanda

• Steered Away from the Fields: Short-Term Impacts of Oxen on Agricultural Production and Intra-household Labor Supply

• The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ School Attendance in Sub-Saharan Africa

• A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice

• Sharing responsibility through joint decision-making and implications for intimate-partner violence: evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries

• Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border

• What Do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia? Insights From a Systematic Review of Asset Transfers and Property Law

• Occupational sex segregation in agriculture: Evidence on gender norms and socio-emotional skills in Nigeria

• He said, she said: The impact of gender and marriage perceptions on self and proxy reporting of labor

• How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi

• Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan

• Sharing Parental Leave between Mothers and Fathers : Experimental Evidence from a Messaging Intervention in Uruguay

• Maternal Work and Children's Development: Examining 20 Years of Evidence

• Evening the Credit Score? Impact of Psychometric Loan Appraisal for Women Entrepreneurs

• Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence

• Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso

• The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries

• Rebel with a Cause: Effects of a Gender Norms Intervention on Adolescents in Somalia

• Welfare impacts of public works in fragile and conflict affected economies

• Losing ground in the field: An exploratory analysis of the relationship between work and mental health amongst women in conflict affected Democratic Republic of the Congo

Reports

• Understanding the Outcomes of the Parcelization of Collective Titles

• Comprehensive Assessment of the Childcare Landscape in Lebanon - A Mixed Methods Study
  
• Driving Better Business Results with Women’s Insurance

• Opening Opportunities: The Economic Cost of Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship in Indonesia

• Using Paradata to Assess Respondent Burden and Interviewer Effects in Household Surveys: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

• Second State of the Mashreq Women Report: “Who Cares?” Care Work and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon

• What Works to Narrow Gender Gaps and Empower Women in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Journal Articles

• Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica

• Conditional cash transfers and violence against women – Does the type of violence matter?
  
• Impacts of an abbreviated person agency training with refugee women and their male partners on economic empowerment, gender-based violence, and mental health: a randomized controlled trail in Rwanda
  
• Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Causal Evidence from Life Skills Programming
  
• More than Measurement Error: Discrepant Reporting of Contraceptive Use and the Role of Wives’ and Husbands’ Educational Attainment

• With or Without Him? Experimental Evidence on Cash Grants and Gender-Sensitive Trainings in Tunisia

• Resilience, Vulnerability, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Poverty Reduction in War

• More than Measurement Error: Discrepant Reporting of Contraceptive Use and the Role of Wives’ and Husbands’ Educational Attainment

• Prevention, Cessation, or harm reduction: Heterogeneous effects of an intimate partner violence prevention program in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Impact of Small Farmers' Access to Improved Seeds and Deforestation in Democratic Republic of Congo

Knowledge and Technical Notes

• Nigeria GIL Technical note: Gender Gaps in Agriculture Productivity and Public Spending in Nigeria

• LAC GIL Knowledge to Action note: Child Support Policies Around the World: Challenges and Implications for Policymakers and Development Practitioners

• LAC GIL Knowledge to Action note: Facilitating the School to Work Transition of Young Women

Case Studies

• Incorporating Spousal Support into a Mindset-focused Business Training for Women in Ethiopia

• Phone-Based Financial Heuristics Training for Female Retailers in Ethiopia

• Helping Female Entrepreneurs Access Digital Platforms: The Importance of a Tech-Plus-Touch Approach and Other Lessons Learned - Case Study 1

Guidance Note

• Survey Questionnaire Module for SGS Indicators

2022

Policy Briefs

• Mashreq: Maximizing the Impact of Gender-Lens Investing and Business Practices for Forcibly Displaced Women (2022) 
• Systematic Review: What do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia? Asset Transfers and Property Law (2022)

• Evidence Review: How Well Do Economic Empowerment Efforts Prevent Child Marriage in South Asia (2022)

• Evidence Review: How Well do Economic Empowerment Efforts Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in South Asia? (2022)

• Girls' Lived Experiences of School Closures : Insights from Interviews with Girls and Mothers in Punjab, Pakistan (2022)

• Addressing Gender-Based Occupational Segregation : Experimental Evidence from the Republic of Congo (2022)

• Household Demand and Community Perceptions of Community-Based Childcare (2022)

• New Insights on Women’s Employment in Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks (2022)

Working Papers

• The Social Tax : Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply (2022)

• The Effects of Childcare on Women and Children: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Burkina Faso (2022)

• Caring for Children and Firms? The Impact of Preschool Expansion on Firm Productivity (2022)

• Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results (2022)

• Addressing Gender-Based Segregation through Information : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Republic of Congo (2022)

• A Seat at the Table: The Role of Information, Conditions, and Voice in Redistributing Intra-Household Property Rights (2022)

• Uneven Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean : Are Women Being Left Behind? (2022)

• Two Heads Are Better Than One: Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire (2022)

• Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence (2022)

• Gender Differences in Socio-Emotional Skills and Economic Outcomes: New Evidence from 17 African Countries (2022)

• Empowering Women to Engage in Commercial Agriculture (2022)

• Increasing Women’s Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare (2022)

Reports

• Enterprising Women: Toward Equal Business Opportunity in Southeast Asia (2022) Photobooklet

• Breaking Barriers : Female Entrepreneurs Who Cross Over to Male-Dominated Sectors (2022)

• Closing Gaps, Increasing Opportunities : A Diagnostic on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Nigeria (2022)

Journal Articles

• Understanding child support arrangements in Colombia: A social exchange theory perspective (2022)

• Development of the South Sudan Mental Health Assessment Scale (2022)

• Empowering Women to Engage in Commercial Agriculture (2022)

• Women Farm What They Can Manage: How Time Constraints Affect the Quantity and Quality of Labor for Married Women’s Agricultural Production in Southwestern Nigeria (2022)

• Tackling psychosocial and capital constraints to alleviate poverty (2022)

• The Role of Skills and Gender Norms in Sector Switches Experimental Evidence from a Job Training Program in Nigeria (2022)

• The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica (2022)

Guidance Notes

• How to Assess Gender Data Gaps in the Economic Domain: Guidance and Baseline Results for the Strengthening Gender Statistics Project’s Partner Countries (2022)

Knowledge Notes

• Knowledge Note: Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in Payment Projects: A Short Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures (2022)

• Knowledge to Action note: Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies Mexico (2022)

Case Studies

• Zain Iraq - Fostering Family-Friendly Policies for Women in the Workplace (2022)

• Ashur International Bank for Investment - Advancing Women in Business Leadership & Management (2022)

• Nafith Logistics Co. - Supporting Women in Non-Traditional Roles (2022)

Policy Briefs

• In Search of Equity : Exploring Africa’s Gender Gap In Start-Up Financing (2021)

• Measuring Women’s Control Over Assets (2021)

• Coping with COVID-19 Shocks in Western Uganda (2021)

• Measuring Women’s Sense of Control and Efficacy (2021)

• Measuring Women’s Goal Setting and Decision-Making (2021)

• Women's Employment and Safety Perceptions: Evidence from Low-income Neighbohoods of Dhaka, Bangladesh (2021)

• How to Escape the Microfinance Lending Squeeze: Evidence from Ethiopia (2021)

• Improving Gender Wage Equality Reduces Intimate Partner Violence in Brazil : Policy Implications for Mothers (2021)

• How to Better Capture Women’s Agency Through Decision-making Measures : Five Tips from Research in the Philippines (2021)

• Evidence to Inform Policy: What Works to Close the Gender Gaps in Middle East & North Africa (2021)

• Impacts of COVID-19 on Labor Markets and Household Well-Being in Pakistan: Evidence from an Online Job Platform (2021)

• Diez mensajes sobre COVID-19 y trabajo femenino en Chile: Impactos y Desafíos (Ten messages on COVID-19 and women's labor in Chile: Impacts and Challenges, 2021)

• The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Labor Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (2021)

• Effects of a Multifaceted Education Program on Enrollment, Learning, and Gender Equity : Evidence from Rajasthan, India (2021)

• The Short-Run Economic Impact of Summer 2020 Protests in Addis Ababa: A Brief Look at the Evidence from a High-Frequency Phone Survey of Firms

• Tell Us How We are Doing: Motivating Teams Through Feedback Versus Public Recognition (2021)

• Engaging Men to Transform Gender Attitudes and Prevent Intimate-Partner Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Working Papers

• Childcare and Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries (2021)

• Occupational Sex Segregation in Agriculture : Evidence on Gender Norms and Socio-Emotional Skills in Nigeria (2021)

• Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decision Making and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence : Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries (2021)

• Does the Gender Wage Gap Influence Intimate Partner Violence in Brazil? Evidence from Administrative Health Data (2021) 

• Motivating Teams : Private Feedback and Public Recognition at Work (2021)

• Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia (2021)

• Women’s Economic Participation, Time Use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh (2021)

• Pathways out of Extreme Poverty : Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger (2021)

• Public Work Programs and Gender-Based Violence : Evidence from Lao PDR (2021)

• The Silenced Women: Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women ? (2021)

• Are growth mindset, mastery orientation, and grit promising for promoting achievement in the Global South? Psychometric evaluations among Indonesian adolescents (2021)

• In Light of What They Know : How do Local Leaders Make Targeting Decisions? (2021)

• Business Training and Mentoring: Experimental Evidence from Women-Owned Microenterprises in Ethiopia (2021)

• Long-Term Impacts of a Short Exposure to CCTs in Adolescence: Evidence from the Philippines (2021)

• Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence against Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic ? (2021)

Reports

• How Have Firms Fared in Times of COVID-19 in Addis Ababa : Evidence from Eight Rounds of High-Frequency Phone Surveys (2021) 

• Women's Economic Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : Obstacles and Opportunities (2021)

• The Status of Women in Lebanon : Assessing Women's Access to Economic Opportunities, Human Capital Accumulation and Agency - English (2021)

• The Status of Women in Lebanon : Assessing Women's Access to Economic Opportunities, Human Capital Accumulation and Agency - Arabic (2021)

• In Search of Equity : Exploring Africa’s Gender Gap In Start-Up Financing (2021)

• Chad : The Economic Benefits of a Post-COVID-19 Gender-Equitable Society (2021)

• Childcare is key to Chile’s post-pandemic economic recovery: Policy considerations (Spanish) 2021

• Enhancing Female Entrepreneurship through Cash Grants Experimental Evidence from Rural Tunisia (2021)

• Women and E-Commerce in Africa (2021)

• Women and E-Commerce in Southeast Asia (2021) 

• LSMS+ Program : Overview and Recommendations for Improving Individual-Disaggregated Data on Asset Ownership and Labor Outcomes (2021)

• LSMS+ Program in Cambodia : Findings from Individual-Level Data Collection on Labor and Asset Ownership (2021)

• LSMS+ Program in Sub-Saharan Africa : Findings from Individual-Level Data Collection on Labor and Asset Ownership (2021)

• Closing the Gap : Gender, Transport, and Employment in Mumbai (2021)

Systematic Reviews

• Systematic Review on Women's Economic Empowerment: What Do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia? (2021)

Journal Articles

• Gender biases in resettlement processes in Vietnam: examining women’s participation and implications for impact assessment (2021)

• Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi (2021)

• Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights (2021)

• Motivating teams: Private feedback and public recognition at work (2021)

Case Studies

• Umniah - Safe and Respectful Workplaces (2021)

• Estarta Solutions Supporting women in non-traditional role (2021)

• The Business Case for Investing in Women’s Employment in Jordan : Amin Kawar and Sons (AKS) - Reaping the Benefits of Family-Friendly Policies (2021)

Policy Briefs

• What Factors Exacerbate and Mitigate the Risk of Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19? : Insights From a Phone Survey in Indonesia (2020)

• Can We Capture Exposure to Gender-based Violence (GBV) through Phone Surveys during a Pandemic? (2020)

• Adolescence in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh (2020)

• Care Work and Intra-Household Tensions during COVID-19: Evidence from an Online Survey of Gig Workers in India (2020)

• COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Gender Lens (2020)

• Fostering Skills for Young Women in Argentina (2020)

• Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement: What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All (2020)

• How Selection Criteria and Preconditions Potentially Disadvantage Farming Women: An Example from the Western Balkans (2020)

• Improving Statistics and Survey Data to Highlight the Contribution of Women in Farming: An Example from the Western Balkans (2020)
  

• Looking at Gender and Socio-Emotional Skills Signaling in Turkey (2020)

• Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico: Breaking Sectoral Segmentation and Increasing Profits (English, 2020)

• Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico: Breaking Sectoral Segmentation and Increasing Profits (Spanish, 2020)

• Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery (2020)

• Testing Gender Discrimination in the Tunisian Labor Market: A Field Experiment (2020)
  

Academic and Working Papers

• In Light of What They Know : How do Local Leaders Make Targeting Decisions? (2020)

• TV-Based Learning in Bangladesh : Is it Reaching Students? (2020)

• The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources : Evidence from Ghana (2020)

• Demand for Safe Spaces (2020)

• In It to Win It ? Self-Esteem and Income-Earning among Couples (2020)

• Measurement of intra-household resource control: Exploring the validity of experimental measures (2020)

• Engaging men to transform inequitable gender attitudes and prevent intimate partner violence (2020)

• 'Fear is What Weighs Most...' Experiences of Women in Situations of Violence in Accessing Support Services in Brazil (2020)
  

• Looking at Gender and Socio-Emotional Skills Signaling in Turkey (2020)

• Method Matters: Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria and Rwanda (2020)

• Short-Run Welfare Impacts of Factory Jobs: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (2020)

• The Impact of Employer Discrimination on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia (2020)
  

• The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia (2020)

• Estimating the Demand for Business Training : Evidence from Jamaica (2020)

• Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills

Reports

• Partnering For Gender Equality : Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality - 2020 Annual Report

• Gender and Microfinance in Myanmar (2020)

• Gender Inclusion in Productive Investments in the Western Balkans (2020)
  

• Gender-Segregated Transportation in Ride-Hailing: Navigating the Debate (2020)

• Her Home – Housing Finance for Women (2020)

• Why Does She Move? A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities (2020)

• Women’s Economic Participation in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon (2020)

Policy Briefs

• Can Community-based Targeting Effectively Select Poorer Beneficiaries for a Large-scale Program? Insights from the LASED Project (2019)

• Empowering Women through Equal Land Rights: Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda (2019)

• Africa Gender Innovation Lab Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic: Building the Evidence Base to Address Gender Inequality in Ethiopia (2019)

• What Are the Economic Costs of Gender Gaps in Ethiopia? (2019)

• Making It Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services (2019)

• Empowering Adolescent Girls in a Crisis Context: Lessons from Sierra Leone in the Time of Ebola (2019)

• Why do Indonesian Men and Women Choose Undocumented Migration? Exploring Gender Differences in Labor Migration Patterns (2019)

Working Papers

• Electrification and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Rural India (2019)

• Full Esteem Ahead? Mindset-Oriented Business Training in Ethiopia (2019)

• How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System? (2019)

• Gender in Waiting: Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities (2019)

• Measuring Social Norms about Female Labor Force Participation in Jordan (2019)

• Tackling the Global Profitarchy: Gender and the Choice of Business Sector (2019)

• The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola: Lessons from an Empowerment Program (2019)

• What We Learn about Girls' Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls (2019)

Reports

• A Gender-Sensitive Insight of Poverty Mapping for Timor-Leste (2019)

• Africa's Pulse, No. 20, October 2019: An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future (2019)

• Board Gender Diversity in ASEAN (2019)

• Enhancing the Economic Participation of Vulnerable Young Women in Solomon Islands (2019)

• Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic Report: Priorities for Promoting Equity (2019)

• Gender Relations in Europe and Central Asia Results from the Life in Transition Survey III (2019)

• How to Ensure Better Outcomes for Women in Resettlement (2019)

• Kosovo Country Report: Findings from the Skills towards Employment and Productivity Survey (2019)

• Profiting from Parity: Unlocking the Potential of Women's Business in Africa (2019)

• Respectful Workplaces: Exploring the Costs of Bullying and Sexual Harassment to Businesses in Myanmar (2019)

• Rural Accessibility Mapping: Completion Report for the East Asia and Pacific Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (2019)

• Tackling Care: The Business Case for Employer-Supported Childcare in Myanmar (2019)

• The Problem Is They See Us as A Whole: Explaining Gender and Ethnicity-based Inequalities Among the Roma in Serbia (2019)

• Unequal Ventures: Results from an Endline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia (2019)

• Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Safer Birth Deliveries in Haiti (2019)

• Voices to Choices: Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment (2019)

• What Works for Working Women? Understanding Female Labor Force Participation in Urban Bangladesh (2019)