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Social Safety Nets, Women’s Economic Achievements and Agency: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Amber Peterman, Jingying Wang, Kevin Kamto Sonke and Janina Steinert
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Jingying Wang: Department of Sociology, University of Zurich

No 684, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: There are increasing calls for social safety nets (SSNs) to be designed and implemented to promote women’s economic inclusion and agency, contributing to closing gender disparities globally. We investigate the extent to which SSNs achieve these goals and explore design and contextual features that promote impacts. We aggregate results from 1,067 effect sizes from 106 publications, representing 202,974 women across 42 low- and middle-income countries. We show robust and highly significant pooled effects for all outcomes (hedges’ g = 0.103, p

Keywords: Social safety nets; cash transfers; women; empowerment; systematic review; meta-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 70 pages
Date: 2024-03-05
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