concealment-detection contest between the taxpayer and the authority. We show that higher tax rates cause more evasion and … increase the resources wasted in the contest. Additionally, we …nd conditions under which a government should enforce incentive …

We present a general model of two players contest with two types of efforts. Contrary to the classical models of … contest, where each player chooses a unique effort, and where the outcome depends on the efforts of all the players … the defence of the opponent. This model has many applications like political campaigning, wars, competition among lobbies …

We evaluate the gender wage gap and the unexplained gender wage differential for workers 15-29 year old during the … endogeneity of education and we evaluate gender discrimination by studying the entire distribution of the unexplained wage gap as …

nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This … work quantifies how long it has taken countries rich and poor to make the transition towards high enrollments and gender …

To what extent has government education spending in Pakistan been effective in reducing gender gaps in enrollments? To … gender disparity in access to public subsidy is higher at tertiary level and lowest at primary level, which also reflects …

that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender … effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries …