Empowering Girls Triggers Their Brothers to Compete : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda

Empowering Girls Triggers Their Brothers to Compete : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda

This brief has key messages through an experiment in Uganda, we find that empowering adolescent girls triggers a surge in their brothers’ competitiveness.Understanding preferences for competition is important because competitiveness is a predicto...

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Main Authors: Buehren, Niklas, Goldstein, Markus, Leonard, Kenneth, Montalvao, Joao, Vasilaky, Kathryn
Format: Brief
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
adolescent girls
sibling competition
skills training
empowerment
WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/978131476955244331/Empowering-girls-triggers-their-brothers-to-compete-Evidence-from-a-lab-in-the-field-experiment-in-Uganda
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25447

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/978131476955244331/Empowering-girls-triggers-their-brothers-to-compete-Evidence-from-a-lab-in-the-field-experiment-in-Uganda
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25447

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