Measuring the Effect of a Community-level Program on Women's Empowerment Outcomes : Evidence from India
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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This paper uses primary data from rural
north India to show that participation in a community-level
female empowerment program significantly increases access to
employment, physical mobility, and political participation.
The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult
education classes, and vocational training for rural women
in several states of India; the data are from Uttarakhand.
The paper uses instrumental variables and
truncation-corrected matching on primary data to disentangle
the program's mechanisms, separately considering its
effect on women who work, and those who do not work but
whose reservation wage is increased by participation. The
analysis also finds significant spillover effects on
non-participants relative to women in untreated districts.
It finds consistent estimates for average treatment and
intent to treat effects
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ACCESS TO EDUCATION, ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, ADULT EDUCATION, AGE AT MARRIAGE, AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY, ALCOHOLISM, ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES, AUTONOMY, AVERAGE FAMILY SIZE, BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION, BIRTH CONTROL, CASH CROP, CENSUSES, CHILD MALNUTRITION, CHILD SURVIVAL, CHILD SURVIVAL RATES, CHILD WELFARE, CITIES, COMMUNITY ACTION, COMMUNITY BUILDING, COMMUNITY-LEVEL PROGRAMS, CONTINUING EDUCATION, CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICES, CONTRACEPTIVE USE, CONTRACEPTIVES, DATA COLLECTION, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DISTRICTS, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DOMINANCE, DOWRY, DROPOUT, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, EMPOWERING WOMEN, EMPOWERMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, FAMILIES, FAMILY HOME, FAMILY PLANNING, FAMILY WELFARE, FEASIBILITY, FEMALE, FEMALE CHILDREN, FEMALE EDUCATION, FEMALE INFANTICIDE, FEMALE LITERACY, FEMALES, FERTILITY, FERTILITY RATE, FEWER CHILDREN, FIELDWORK, FIGURES, GENDER, GENDER EQUALITY, GENDER EQUITY, GENDER INEQUALITY, GIRLS, HEALTH PROMOTION, HOME, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLDS, HOUSES, HUSBAND, HUSBANDS, INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES, INDIVIDUAL HEALTH, INDIVIDUAL WOMEN, INEQUALITY, INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN, INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INTERVENTIONS, INTERVIEWS, INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN, JOB OPPORTUNITIES, KINSHIP, KINSHIP STRUCTURE, LABOR FORCE, LABOUR MARKET, LACK OF DEVELOPMENT, LARGE NUMBERS OF WOMEN, LAWS, LEARNING, LITERACY, MARRIED WOMAN, MARRIED WOMEN, MATERNAL HEALTH, MIDWIVES, MIGRATION, MINISTRY OF HEALTH, MOBILIZATION, MOTHER, NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, NATURE OF WOMEN, NUMBER OF CHILDREN, NUMBER OF WOMEN, OLDER MEN, OLDER WOMEN, POLICY DISCUSSIONS, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT, POPULATION STUDIES, POWER, PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE, PROGRAM EVALUATION, PROGRESS, RECONSTRUCTION, RELIGION, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, RESPECT, RURAL WOMEN, SCARCE RESOURCES, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, SELF-CONFIDENCE, SELF-ESTEEM, SEX, SEX RATIO, SOCIAL CHANGE, SOCIAL CLASS, SOCIAL INTERACTIONS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, SOCIAL NORMS, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, SOCIAL STATUS, SOCIETY, SPECIAL EDUCATION, SPILLOVER, SPILLOVER EFFECT, SPILLOVER EFFECTS, SPOUSE, TEACHING, UNMARRIED WOMEN, VILLAGE, VILLAGES, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, WILL, WIVES, WOMAN, WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, YOUNG CHILDREN, YOUNG WOMEN