Sustainable Economic Empowerment

Interventions and programs that claim to be economically empowering and welfare-improving for women are often implemented without taking the long-term impacts of their efforts into consideration. Research under this theme will: 1) critically evaluate the extent to which the impacts of programs can be sustained, even possibly over a time horizon beyond the length of the program (i.e. when the program has ended); 2) identify the degree to which such programs, and their impacts, can be scaled up; 3) investigate the unintended consequences and general equilibrium effects of these programs by exploring a range of economic and welfare outcomes beyond just those that were originally targeted.

Latest News & Publications

• Seminar Summary – Queering Repression: How the Global Crackdown on Civil Society Affects LGBT+ NGO Foundings

  March 17, 2025

  By Naomi Frim-Abrams On February 26, 2025, the Spring 2025 Human Capital Initiative (HCI) Seminar Series at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center hosted Kristopher... [ More ]

• Seminar Summary – Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil

  December 09, 2024

  By Naomi Frim-Abrams On November 20, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) hosted Jon Denton-Schneider, Assistant Professor of Economics at Clark University, for the final installment... [ More ]

• Seminar Summary — Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from the Informal Sector: Evidence from Bangladesh

  October 30, 2024

  By Naomi Frim-Abrams On October 23, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) hosted Nina Brooks, Core Faculty Member of HCI at the Boston University Global Development... [ More ]