Call for Submissions: EfD (Inaugural) Gender Analysis Award

The Environment for Development Initiative (EfD) is pleased to announce the call for submissions for our Gender Analysis Award, recognizing exemplary work in integrating gender analysis within…

Date: Sunday 15 September — Sunday 15 September, 2024
Location: On-line
Call for Papers SETI 2022

SETI 2022 Call for Papers Annual Workshop of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI)

June 23 - 24, 2022, 2-day virtual meeting + Uganda as part of the 2022 EfD Annual Meeting(1 day between September 22-26, 2022) Hosted by NENRE-EfD Chile at the University of Concepción and Duke…

Date: Tuesday 31 May — Tuesday 31 May, 2022
Location: Virtual + Uganda
NENRE meeting

Call for Papers and Policy Works: NENRE-EfD Chile 7th meeting in October! (in Spanish)

Submit your work here: https://bit.ly/3x8uh34 The Seventh Annual Meeting of the EfD Chile center "Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE)", will take place on October…

Date: Thursday 14 October — Friday 15 October, 2021
Location: Virtually

Age at Marriage and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

Submitted by Tanay Ray Bhatt on
EfD Authors:

We examine the relationship between women's age at marriage and their labour market outcomes using nationally representative household data from India. Employing an instrumental variable‐based empirical strategy, we find that a delay in women's age at marriage has no significant causal effect on their labour market outcomes. This is despite marriage delay being associated with higher education, lower fertility and (possibly) higher dowry for Indian women. We argue that this might be because older brides, as compared with younger brides, face more backlash from their partners.

Gender

Missing female patients: an observational analysis of sex ratio among outpatients in a referral tertiary care public hospital in India

Submitted by Tanay Ray Bhatt on
EfD Authors:

Objective: To investigate gender discrimination in access to healthcare and its relationship with the patient’s age and distance from the healthcare facility.Design and settingAn observational study based on outpatient data from a large referral public hospital in Delhi, India.ParticipantsConfirmed clinical appointments.Primary and secondary outcome measuresEstimates from the logistic regression are used to compute sex ratios (male/female) of patient visits with respect to distance from the hospital and age.

Gender

Guidelines for gender and socially inclusive payment for ecosystem services for the water sector in Kenya

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on

Water is an essential resource for life, yet its sustainability is increasingly threatened by environmental degradation, climate change, and inequitable management practices. To address these challenges, the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) approach offers a transformative mechanism for promoting environmental conservation while ensuring socio-economic equity.

Gender, Policy Design, Water
| Energy, Gender, Policy Design | India

Does electrification illuminate women's lives?

A key reason for women’s low labour force participation in developing countries is the burden of unpaid domestic work. Analysing data from rural Bangladesh, this article assesses whether electrification can make a difference by increasing access to time-saving technologies. It finds that women in electrified homes are able to divert some time away from housework to farm work and leisure, and have a greater say in decision-making.

This is the third post of a five-part series to mark International Women’s Day 2025.

Women Empowerment in Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Manufacturing Productivity

Submitted by Meseret Birhan… on

Key Messages

  • It is painted that product innovation has a positive effect on energy efficiency
  • Energy efficiency in the case studies has a positive effect on TFP, capital productivity, and labour productivity
  • On average, Ghana has the highest energy efficiency among the four case study countries including Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria
  • There is no association between firm innovation and gender in Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria
  • Findings highlighted that productivity effects of energy efficiency are lower for women-owned enterprises
Energy, Gender

Farmers in the midst of climate change: an intra-household analysis of gender roles on farmers’ choices of adaptation strategies to salinity intrusion in Vietnam

Submitted by Nhan Le on

This study investigates the opinions of wives and husbands in farm households concerning desirable adaptive responses to salinity intrusion. Data were collected via a survey of farm households in three coastal provinces in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. The sample includes 117 married couples who have been growing rice for several years. The findings indicate that wives and husbands have different opinions on adaptation strategies. Different factors affect wives’ and husbands’ choices of adaptive measures as well as the number of adaptive measures that they would consider taking.

Agriculture, Climate Change, Gender