Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labour supply of … paper we also explore differences in gender elasticities which emerge endogenously in a model in which spouses bargain over … market work, social welfare improves by taxing conditional on gender. When income sharing within the family is substantial …

This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana …-landed households. This evidence is consistent with the fact that before the reform matrilineal groups in Ghana "over-invested" in …

and productivity growth is low. We apply our theory to the windfalls of Norway, Iraq and Ghana. The optimal size of Ghana …’s liquidity fund is tiny even with high prudence. Norway’s liquidity fund is bigger than Ghana’s. Iraq’s liquidity fund is … to invest. We illustrate how this can speed up the process of development in Ghana despite domestic absorption …

randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and female-owned microenterprises in urban Ghana. Our findings cast doubt on the …

cardiovascular health. We further test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set …. Complementary to our experimental findings we find a strong and highly significant association between health outcomes, in … particular cardiovascular health, and fairness of pay. …