Dissertation

In my job market paper, I use data I collected from the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) long-term follow-up survey to assess the impact of the transfer on young women’s and men’s relationship quality, and young women’s experience of intimate partner violence (IPV). For my second aim, I analyze in-depth interviews with young women in SCTP households to identify triggers and examine experiences of IPV and consequent help-seeking behaviors. In my third aim, I use panel data from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey and Indonesia Family Life Survey to assess how women transition into and out of empowerment over time, and how and whether different measures of empowerment result in different program and policy recommendations.

About Audrey

Audrey Pereira is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy and a pre-doctoral trainee in Population Sciences at the Carolina Population Center. She has extensive experience in impact evaluations, social protection, mixed methods, gender, and adolescence.

Currently, Audrey supports mixed-methods evaluations of child marriage and adaptive social protection interventions at the UNICEF Evaluation Office. Previously, she consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on the Status of Women in Agrifood Systems report, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Before entering the doctoral program, Audrey worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index and other research related to gender and development. She was also part of the Transfer Project team at the UNICEF Office of Research, Innocenti, focusing on food security, adolescent wellbeing, and violence against women and children. Additionally, she consulted for the World Bank and Jhpiego, developing cost effectiveness estimates for health and nutrition programs.

Audrey holds a Master of Science in Public Health in health systems and economics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Bachelors of Arts in Economics and French from the University of California at Davis.