MAGNET is pleased to share that a new policy brief, Measuring Women’s Agency: New MAGNET Tools for Research and Policy, is now available. This policy brief highlights our new set of tools, which include measures of three dimensions of agency: control over assets, goal-setting and decision-making, and sense of control and efficacy. Check out the […]
When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency? Evidence from the Rural Philippines
Capturing individual agency—the ability to set goals and act on them—is important for measuring progress towards development goals. Decision-making is often used as a proxy for agency, though there are theoretical critiques of this approach. Using unique data from the rural Philippines, this paper empirically tests the extent to which different aspects of agricultural decision-making […]
When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency? Evidence from the Rural Philippines
Decision-making is often used as a proxy for agency—the ability to set goals and act on them—although there are several theoretical critiques of this approach. Using unique data from the rural Philippines, this paper empirically tests the extent to which different aspects of decision-making are correlated with the Relative Autonomy Index, a measure of agency […]
Recording the Time Divide : A Comparative Study of Smartphone- and Recall-Based Approaches to Time Use Measurement
Based on a randomized survey experiment in Malawi, this study examines how innovative techniques in time use data collection could sidestep measurement concerns with traditional recall-based time use measurement. The experiment assigns random samples of households, and adult men and women within, to one of two treatment arms on time use measurement: a traditional 24-hour […]
Multidimensionality of Landownership among Men and Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
A lack of representative insights into the different dimensions of land rights, alongside ownership, can hamper effective targeting of land reforms, particularly in low-income countries where customary tenure systems and low levels of documented ownership persist. Using machine learning and nationally representative intrahousehold survey data on various types of land rights and control, we examine […]
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