Akanksha Vardani (Research Advisor, Behavioural Insights Team UK) presented ‘Willingness to pay as a measure of agency: Implementation and Interpretation’ at the Food and Nutrition Policy (FNP) Brown Bag Seminar on October 29, 2025. The paper, co-authored with Aletheia Donald (World Bank) and Berber Kramer (IFPRI), examines the validity and interpretation of willingness to pay […]
MAGNET Initiative presents new tools for measuring women’s agency with NSOs
In two recent virtual engagements with national statistical offices (NSOs) and gender data practitioners, the Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) Initiative introduced innovative measurement tools designed to capture dimensions of women's agency that have traditionally been difficult to quantify in large-scale surveys and national statistical systems. On October 21, 2025, Aletheia Donald (Senior Economist, […]
MAGNET seminar explores new measures of agency in rural Kenya
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 […]
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