The behavioural implications of women's empowerment programmes

Lata Gangadharan (), Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joseph Vecci

No wp-2016-64, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Participatory community programmes are a potentially important tool for social empowerment and economic development. How do participatory programmes that specifically target women affect community trust and cohesion? This question is important since the longterm success of such programmes might depend critically on the behavioural transformation that they generate. We examine this question in the context of JEEViKA, a community-based empowerment programme that targets women in Bihar, India.

Keywords: Economic development; Field experiments; Pension trusts; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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