Promoting women at work increases female bargaining power in the household, both for new female managers and female staff exposed to them as role models
Expanded public schooling in India increased education and earnings for students in targeted regions, but estimates of this effect are dampened when accounting for broader economic changes
Feelings of relative poverty engender political support among cash transfer recipients, while such feelings erode political support among non-beneficiaries
Conditional cash transfer programmes can have long-term benefits by reducing crime, lowering adolescent fertility and increasing school attendance as well as formal employment.
