@article{e19901168c6e42b392394b5bd76e13a1,
title = "Can development aid empower women? Evidence from a field experiment in the Congo",
abstract = "Can development aid empower women? We randomly assigned 1,250 Congolese communities to a development program that distributed development funds and included women in project selection and implementation, with the goal of empowering women. In 2010 and 2011, we revisited 816 treatment and control communities to collect survey data. Furthermore, in 413 communities we implemented a $1,000 unconditional cash transfer program to assess behavioral change. We find only weak evidence that the program influenced the role of women in the community and policy outcomes and no evidence that the program had an impact on the role of women within the household or attitudes toward them.",
author = "{van der Windt}, Peter",
note = "Funding Information: Support for this research was provided by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3IE) grant OW2.232. Internal Review Board approval was obtained from Columbia University (IRB-AAAF4550). The data for this article were collected by Van der Windt in collaboration with Macartan Humphreys and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, the International Rescue Committee, CARE International, and the Universities of Bukavu and Lubumbashi. An online appendix with supplementary material is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/697955. Data and supporting materials necessary to reproduce the numerical results in the article are available in the JOP Dataverse (http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jop). Thanks to Andrew Beath and the anonymous reviewers for comments. Thanks also to Wageningen University and participants at Konstanz, London School of Economics, Antwerp University, the Midwest Political Science Association, and New York University, Abu Dhabi. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 by the Southern Political Science Association. All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1086/697955",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "80",
pages = "1039--1044",
journal = "Journal of Politics",
issn = "0022-3816",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "3",
}