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 […]
MAGNET paper presented at IPA-Northwestern Methods & Measurement Conference
Aletheia Donald presented four new scales from the forthcoming MAGNET paper “Measuring Psychological Constructs in Low-Income Settings” (co-authored with Clare Clingain and Maria Hernandez-de-Benito) at the IPA-Northwestern Methods & Measurement Conference on October 12th. At the conference, researchers from around the world discussed recent advances in measurement under IPA’s Research Methods Initiative’s three strands: Research […]
MAGNET tools presented at REACH Conference
Maria Hernandez de Benito andMarya Hillesland presented four of MAGNET’s new decision-making survey tools at the REACH Water Security & Poverty Conference at the University of Oxford on September 22, 2023. The seminar was convened by Professor Cheryl R. Doss and focused on tools for measuring women’s empowerment and agency in the water sector. To […]
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