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Thursday, May 23 / 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM • Auditorium Backstage

Session 78
Women's economic empowerment: learning from successful interventions

Chair: Violet Murunga, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)

1. Does Contraceptive Use Facilitate Women’s Economic Empowerment? Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso • Carolina Cardona, Johns Hopkins University; Elizabeth A. Gummerson, Princeton University; Mahesh Karra, Boston University; Philip A. Anglewicz, Johns Hopkins University.

2. Contraception et achèvement du niveau secondaire dans les délais chez les adolescentes sexuellement actives à Yaoundé au Cameroun* • Nadège Chouapi Kouam Dzutseu, Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD).

3. Family Planning and Women’s Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Urban Malawi • Mahesh Karra, Boston University; David Canning, Harvard University.

4. Social Interactions and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Kenya • Beatrice Mbinya, University of Nairobi; Kefa Simiyu, University of Nairobi.

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