-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Previous studies in Latin America suggest that the gender of the household head is not a …

Wealth gaps in educational outcomes are large in many developing countries. And gender gaps, though absent in many … disadvantage, household wealth interacts with gender to create an especially large gender gap among the poor. Using internationally … comparable household data sets (Demographic and Health Surveys), Filmer investigates how gender and wealth interact to generate …

importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender …

Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …

During the period from 1990 to 2002, U.S. households experienced a dramatic wealth cycle, induced by a 369-percent … rise throughout this period. Using data from 1990 to 2005, traditional approaches to estimating macroeconomic wealth …, income, and wealth is weak at best; and (ii) life-cycle models that rely on aggregate measures of wealth cannot explain why …