TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kandpal, Eeshani
AU  - Baylis, Kathy
AU  - Arends-Kuenning, Mary P.
        TI  - Empowering Women through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program
        PY  - 2012/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6347
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6347
        AB  - This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases participants' physical mobility, political participation, and access to employment. The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational training. We use truncation-corrected matching and instrumental variables on primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do not work but whose reservation wage is increased by participation. We also find significant spillover effects on non-participants relative to women in untreated districts.
        KW  - women's empowerment
KW  - community-level interventions
KW  - impact evaluation
KW  - India
        ER  -