Dr Michael King is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics.
The study will examine whether adding gender empowerment, household cooperation and relationship training to a low-cost Graduation programme can improve women’s agency, household decision-making and economic outcomes.
The research will build on earlier experimental evidence from Malawi and will test whether similar impacts can be achieved in a different setting and at lower implementation cost. The study will generate evidence for policymakers and development practitioners on how anti-poverty programmes can be designed to better support women’s economic empowerment, household cooperation and cost-effective scale-up.
The New Wave Graduation Research Fund is an initiative by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).