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...
Main Authors: | Buehren, Niklas, Goldstein, Markus, Leonard, Kenneth, Montalvao, Joao, Vasilaky, Kathryn |
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Format: | Brief |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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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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