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One potential explanation for the source of gender norms that discourage women from participating in the labor force is that men feel threatened by the status and resources that working women obtain. This project proposes a way to change prevailing norms...

In this project, we want to explore whether improving public primary healthcare increases female labor force participation (FLP) and women's economic agency in rural Rajasthan. We will collaborate with the Government of Rajasthan to investigate the effects of...

This project aims at promoting female entrepreneurship in male-dominated sectors in Uganda's main cities (Kampala, Masaka and Jinja). In order to better understand how important information is and how it should be delivered to be effective, we plan to conduct...

We seek to ask the extent to which having regular interaction (both in-person at the start of the study and via phone afterward) with a successful, female business owner from the same community impacts economic agency and empowerment within the household.

In a novel empirical attempt, this pilot study investigates whether changing the structure of police services to encourage competition between different service delivery units, has an effect on crimes like corruption, improve citizen trust in the police and...

Sexual harassment imposes substantial socio-economic constraints on the victimized yet little is understood on what are effective tools to deter it. Collaborating with colleges in New Delhi, the researchers is conducting an RCT to study effectiveness of sexual...

This project will study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education and wellbeing of primary school aged children in India. Researchers will take advantage of a randomized evaluation conducted by Pratham between 2018 and 2019 across 200 schools and...

This study develops a cost-effective multi-intervention strategy to improve vaccination adherence for children. A prediction algorithm identifies which of a range of interventions a specific household would respond to and then deploys the lowest-cost...