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SUMMARY:Gender Norms\, Women’s Executive Function\, and Anti-Poverty Programs:  Experimental Evidence from India
DESCRIPTION:Gender Norms\, Women’s Executive Function\, and Anti-Poverty Programs: Experimental Evidence from India\nSociocultural norms and executive function are powerful factors in an individual’s agency\, decision-making\, and development. Gender norms\, for example\, mediate the relationship between economic development and women’s labor market outcomes. Executive functions make it possible for a person to live\, work\, and learn. They are important for taking simple to complex actions\, from cooking\, shopping\, nurturing children\, planning\, and to execution. Low executive functions can frustrate the success of anti-poverty and empowerment programs through participants’ inadequate planning\, improper utilization of resources\, and the lack of timely actions. In developing countries\, among the fundamental obstacles to poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment are gender norms and women’s low executive functions.\nIn this talk\, Prof. Rahman will describe a women’s anti-poverty program in India and present evidence on its causal effects on gender norms and women’ executive function. The policy implications of the findings for anti-poverty programs and women’s empowerment will also be discussed. \nAbout the speaker\nProf. Tauhidur Rahman is a development economist and an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. He is the Founding Director of the Initiative for Agency and Development (IfAD)\, a state-of-the art experimentation initiative housed at the University of Arizona that discovers and promotes solutions to the problems of agency\, and development. He was a visiting professor of law and economics at University of Oslo\, Norway in 2011. He has been a regular visiting researcher at the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank\, Washington\, DC. He was trained as an applied econometrician\, with research interests in development economics\, behavioral economics\, law and economics\, and program evaluation. He has studied issues such as measurements and analysis of human well-being\, child labor\, child and elderly health\, environmental justice and environmental regulations\, and impacts of community-driven anti-poverty programs. His current research projects include measurements of poverty and well-being\, agency\, behavioral impacts of anti-poverty programs\, and climate information services for climate-resilient development. He has served on panels of USDA\, EPA and NSF\, and has collaborated with USAID and UN institutions. He is the co-author of Environmental Justice and Federalism (Edward Elgar Publishing\, 2013)\, and author of two-volume book (in progress)\, Empowering the Poor. \n  \n16h00-16h05: Welcome and Introduction of AFAERE \nCharles Nhemachena\, Secretary General\, AFAERE \n  \n16h05-16h10: Introduction of Speaker \nSelma Karuaihe\, President\, AFAERE \n  \n16h10-16h40: “Gender Norms\, Women’s Executive Function\, and Anti-Poverty Programs: \nExperimental Evidence from India”\nProfessor Tauhidur Rahman\, PhD\nFounding Director: The Initiative for Agency and Development (IfAD)\nAssociate Professor\, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Economics (Courtesy)\nThe University of Arizona\, Tucson\, AZ \n16h40-16h50: Discussion (Q & A)\n16h50-17h00: Vote of Thanks \nWisdom Akpalu\, Former President\, AFAERE \nWebinar Format\n30 Minutes presentations by the speaker. (We follow South African time – same as CAT)\n10 minutes of Q&A at the end of the presentation. \n  \nZoom Link:  https://up-ac-za.zoom.us/j/91349589841?pwd=TjF5dFNiVFlHekVwV0RPT05ZcjZEUT09\n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://afaere.org/event/gender-norms-womens-executive-function-and-anti-poverty-programs-experimental-evidence-from-india/
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SUMMARY:Randomized Controlled Trials in Environment and Development Economics
DESCRIPTION:Randomized Controlled Trials in Environment and Development Economics\nRandomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)\, also known as Randomized Evaluations\, have gained increasing prominence as a methodology for evaluating policy impacts. In RCTs\, researchers randomly assign study participants to one or more groups: the “treatment group\,” which receives the intervention\, and the “control group”\, which doesn’t. Researchers measure the outcome variables of interest in these groups to identify the impact of the treatment as the single mean difference between the treatment and control groups. RCTs also empower researchers and policymakers to tailor their research designs to address specific inquiries about program\neffectiveness and its underlying theory of change. Well-designed and meticulously executed RCTs can help understand the program’s effectiveness\, the potential unforeseen consequences\, the primary beneficiaries\, the efficacy of various program components\, cost-effectiveness\, and\nhow the program compares to other programs with similar goals. \nThis webinar aims to equip participants with the fundamental aspects of RCTs\, emphasizing RCTs involving environment and development interventions. \n  \nWednesday\, December 20 2023 \n14:00 – 16:00 (WAT) \nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://unn-edu-ng.zoom.us/j/99723722365?pwd=c2lnS0E0aDA2MHhGY2lPbkRWSWhCZz09 \nMeeting ID: 997 2372 2365 \nPasscode: 257357 \n14:00-14:05: Welcome and Introduction of AFAERE \nNnaemeka Chukwuone\, President\, AFAERE \n14:05-14:10: Introduction of Speaker \nPrecious Zikhali\, President-Elect\, AFAERE \n14:10-15:30: Randomized Controlled Trials in Environment and Development Economics \nSpeaker: Yonas Alem (PhD)\, Director\, Academic Programs (EfD)\, Associate Professor\, Department of Economics\, School of Business\, Economics and Law\, University of Gothenburg \n14:30 – 14:45: Question and Answer \n16h40 – 16h45: Vote of Thanks by Selma Karuihe\, Former President\, AFAERE \n  \n  \n
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SUMMARY:AFAERE Webinar 2025
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: The U.S. Trade War and Africa’s Green Future\nDate: July 30\, 2025\nTime: 2 PM WAT\nZoom link will be provided later \nFocus Areas\n1. Impact of the U.S. trade war on Africa’s clean energy goals and natural resource sustainability. \n2. Risks and vulnerabilities for African natural resources amid global trade tensions. \n3. Policy and market responses from Africa\, China\, and the U.S.\, and how Africa can adapt and thrive. \nKeynote Speaker\n \nProf. Anthony Onoja\nProfessor of Agricultural Economics\, University of Port Harcourt \nMore Information\nWe encourage interested researchers to join AFAERE (https://afaere.org/membership/ ). For questions related to AFAERE membership\, please contact afaerecouncil@gmail.com
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