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Social Safety Nets, Women’s Economic Achievements and Agency: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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  • Amber Peterman

    (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Center for Global Development)

  • Jingying Wang

    (Department of Sociology, University of Zurich)

  • Kevin Kamto Sonke

    (Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University)

  • Janina Steinert

    (TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich)

Abstract

There are increasing calls for social safety nets (SSNs) to be designed and implemented to promote women’s economic inclusion and agency, contributing to closing gender disparities globally. We investigate the extent to which SSNs achieve these goals and explore design and contextual features that promote impacts. We aggregate results from 1,067 effect sizes from 106 publications, representing 202,974 women across 42 low- and middle-income countries. We show robust and highly significant pooled effects for all outcomes (hedges’ g = 0.103, p

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  • Amber Peterman & Jingying Wang & Kevin Kamto Sonke & Janina Steinert, 2024. "Social Safety Nets, Women’s Economic Achievements and Agency: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," Working Papers 684, Center for Global Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:cgd:wpaper:684
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