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      Empowering Women through Development Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan

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          In societies with widespread gender discrimination, development programs with gender quotas are considered a way to improve women's economic, political, and social status. Using a randomized field experiment across 500 Afghan villages, we examine the effects of a development program that mandates female participation. We find that even in a highly conservative context like Afghanistan, such initiatives improve outcomes specific to female participation in some economic, social, and political activities, including increased mobility and income generation. They, however, produce no change in more entrenched female roles linked to family decision-making or in attitudes toward the general role of women in society.

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                Journal
                applab
                American Political Science Review
                Am Polit Sci Rev
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0003-0554
                1537-5943
                August 2013
                July 24 2013
                : 107
                : 03
                : 540-557
                Article
                10.1017/S0003055413000270
                2c779c02-3080-408f-aafc-d55e0b0dbee6
                © 2013
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