Events

Three MAGNET researchers presented work on gender measurement at the virtual seminar "What Shapes Gendered Choices? Hidden Dynamics of Property Rights, Decision-Making, and Occupational Bias," co-hosted by the South Asia Gender Innovation Lab, the Africa Gender Innovation Lab, and the Women's Economic Empowerment in South Asia (WEESA) Community of Practice on January 28, 2026. Kate […]

Two MAGNET researchers presented work on gender measurement at the conference "Better Data for Better Jobs and Lives: Innovations in Survey Measurement in the Age of AI," held at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on December 8-9, 2025. Aletheia Donald (Senior Economist, Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank) presented Whose Job Is it? Implicit […]

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 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 […]

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 […]