Background Across the globe, gender disparities still exist with regard to equitable access to
resources, participation in decision‐making processes, and gender and sexual‐based …

We investigate whether the introduction of the right to unilateral, no-fault, divorce for women
has an impact on domestic abuse, investments in children's human capital, women's labor …

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty or advance social goals by
encouraging desirable behavior that recipients under-invest in. An unintended consequence …

[eng] Despite the abundance of theories and evidence, addressing key questions about the
existence and drivers of gender gaps remains essential: Where do gender gaps exist? Why …

This thesis comprises three essays on the economics of development and health in
Bangladesh. The first essay uses a field experiment to show that behavioral nudges …

Egypt's national cash transfer program, Takaful, and its sister program Karama covered 17
million poor beneficiaries as of 2022, about 16 percent of the Egyptian population. Takaful …

Existing evidence on the effectiveness of conditional transfers leaves a number of open
questions. In this study, we utilize the changes in the coverage of Bangladesh's Primary …