Inclusion Economics research featured in Financial Times: "Bridging the gap between business school research & policymaking"
Highlighted by the Financial Times, a study focusing on women's financial power in India has been rated as one of the business school papers to have the greatest impact globally by Overton, a database that tracks the impact of academic research on policy.
Financial Times
November 8, 2024
... The results were striking. They clearly showed that women who received training and wages deposited in their bank account were more likely to find work. This applied to employment in both the public and private sectors.
Charity Moore, the paper’s co-author, says that, when researchers followed up with their subjects, even as much as eight years later, the researchers found “really strong persistent impacts on labour supply” and higher levels of autonomy among those women who had benefited. “The potential income coming to them had shifted the balance of power in the household,” she says. “These women become more liberal. They think it’s more appropriate now for women to be working outside the household.”