Drawing on mixed methods research from rural Kenya, Marya Hillesland (gender advisor at KIT institute and visiting fellow at the University of Oxford) highlighted how traditional empowerment measures may underestimate agency when presenting the virtual seminar Deciding Not to Decide: When Is There Power in Not Deciding? on April 25, 2025. Opening remarks by Clara […]
MAGNET seminar showcases new scales to measure agency in lower-income settings
Maria Hernandez-de-Benito presented the paper virtual Measuring Agency Through Psychological Constructs in Lower-Income Settings on November 18, 2024. The seminar also featured the World Bank’s Africa Chief Economist Andrew Dabalen provided opening remarks, and the Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Senior Economists Clara Delavallade and Aletheia Donald served as discussant and moderator. The seminar showcased the […]
Maria Hernandez de Benito presents MAGNET tools at the International Behavioral Public Policy Conference
Maria Hernandez de Benito presented innovative measurement tools from the MAGNET initiative at the International Behavioral Public Policy Conference (IBPPC) on June 24, 2024. The session, titled "Measuring Social and Gender Norms for Better Policy Design," also featured contributions from Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Dana Qarout, and Maurizio Bussolo. Agency and social norms are pivotal […]
MAGNET researchers present results from new time-use agency tool
Caren Grown, Aletheia Donald, and Greg Seymour each contributed to the virtual seminar Beyond time poverty: measuring women’s and men’s time-use agency in Malawi on May 22, 2024. This seminar focused on results from the testing of the MAGNET time-use agency survey module in Malawi, which was implemented alongside traditional time-use data collection. Greg Seymour […]
MAGNET researchers present at Driving Change: Leveraging Personal Agency Approaches for Development
Aletheia Donald, Cheryl Doss, Marya Hillesland, Hazel Malapit, and Heather Moylan presented findings from the testing of several MAGNET tools at the Driving Change: Leveraging Personal Agency Approaches for Development convening at Johns Hopkins University on May 1, 2024. The two-day convening, which included Naila Kabeer and Kaushik Basu in its list of speakers, focused […]
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