This one-day gathering brought together a small group of researchers and donors to discuss several current debates and challenges in measuring women’s empowerment and to generate a practical set of recommendations on how researchers, practitioners, and donors can improve the ways we measure empowerment using surveys and non-survey instruments.IPA and J-PAL will summarize these recommendations in a series of blog posts, research resources, and apply best practices to their own work.SessionsFrameworks for Defining and Measuring Women’s EmpowermentThis session examined definitions and conceptual frameworks of empowerment across subfields and disciplines, such as development and feminist economics and anthropology.

IPA researcher Professor Pascaline Dupas presented the results of her research project on the impact of free secondary education in Ghana.Around 80 attendees (mostly researchers and students) came to this event and were able to discuss these results with her.