Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India
We explore the impacts of exposing women to female role models and providing skills training on outcomes related to women’s aspirations and engagement in demanding assets under India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)—the largest public works program in the world, wh...
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| author | Kosec, Katrina Kyle, Jordan Narayanan, Sudha Raghunathan, Kalyani Ray, Soumyajit |
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| description | We explore the impacts of exposing women to female role models and providing skills training on outcomes related to women’s aspirations and engagement in demanding assets under India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)—the largest public works program in the world, which solicits citizen input on which assets to build and where. While the role model treatment exposes women to a video with stories of female role models from neighboring districts who successfully demanded assets, the skills training shows women how to identify individual and group needs for assets, frame their demands, and articulate them to public functionaries. In a randomized controlled trial spanning 94 villages and involving approximately 2,600 women, we find that exposure to role models alone has limited impacts, but when combined with skills training, there are strong positive impacts on women’s aspirations and engagement in demanding assets. This reveals that even a light-touch training can significantly benefit women’s voice and agency in village decision-making. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1690232025-12-02T21:03:03Z Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India Kosec, Katrina Kyle, Jordan Narayanan, Sudha Raghunathan, Kalyani Ray, Soumyajit civil society decision making gender training women's empowerment We explore the impacts of exposing women to female role models and providing skills training on outcomes related to women’s aspirations and engagement in demanding assets under India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)—the largest public works program in the world, which solicits citizen input on which assets to build and where. While the role model treatment exposes women to a video with stories of female role models from neighboring districts who successfully demanded assets, the skills training shows women how to identify individual and group needs for assets, frame their demands, and articulate them to public functionaries. In a randomized controlled trial spanning 94 villages and involving approximately 2,600 women, we find that exposure to role models alone has limited impacts, but when combined with skills training, there are strong positive impacts on women’s aspirations and engagement in demanding assets. This reveals that even a light-touch training can significantly benefit women’s voice and agency in village decision-making. 2024-12-31 2025-01-14T20:56:10Z 2025-01-14T20:56:10Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/169023 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140692 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105579 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134860 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.024 https://www.theindiaforum.in/public-policy/staking-claim-entitlements-under-mgnrega Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kosec, Katrina; Kyle, Jordan; Narayanan, Sudha; Raghunathan, Kalyani; and Ray, Soumyajit. 2024. Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2315. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/169023 |
| spellingShingle | civil society decision making gender training women's empowerment Kosec, Katrina Kyle, Jordan Narayanan, Sudha Raghunathan, Kalyani Ray, Soumyajit Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India |
| title | Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India |
| title_full | Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India |
| title_fullStr | Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India |
| title_short | Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India |
| title_sort | can role models and skills training increase women s voice in asset selection experimental evidence from odisha india |
| topic | civil society decision making gender training women's empowerment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/169023 |
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