Behavioral Approaches to Address Gender Inequality in Economic Opportunity
Recent innovations in policy interventions have departed from the traditional assumption that people just need sufficient information, adequate incentives (such as lower costs or benefits) or laws for the desired behaviors to happen. The authors ha...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099915004042225904/P1696270d033c40120b3f402658fde69261 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37349 |
| Summary: | Recent innovations in policy
interventions have departed from the traditional assumption
that people just need sufficient information, adequate
incentives (such as lower costs or benefits) or laws for the
desired behaviors to happen. The authors have learned that
psychological and social factors that influence human
behaviors need to be taken into account as they play an
instrumental role in the success of development policies and
outcomes at every level. Behavioral science - which borrows
from anthropology, economics, neuroscience, psychology, and
sociology - offers new insights and tools to help
policymakers and development practitioners improve upon the
design and implementation of policies and interventions -
often at low cost - by revealing and addressing patterns of
human thinking and behavior normally not accounted for in
traditional policy design. The purpose of this note is to
offer policymakers and operational teams a simple guide for
applying behavioral insights to policies and programs aimed
at addressing gender gaps; and a selection of some examples
of rigorously evaluated interventions that have successfully
addressed drivers of behavior to close specific gender gaps
in developing country contexts. Specifically, the note
focuses on two dimensions of women’s economic opportunity:
women’s participation in the labor force and women’s
ownership and control over productive assets. |
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