Why women participate less in civic activity: Evidence from Mali

Jessica Gottlieb

This paper finds that a randomly assigned civic education course in Mali widened the gender gap, when it increased civic activity among men while decreasing that among women. Qualitative evidence reveals mechanisms by which the intervention generated perverse consequences for women.

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