the disparities between men and women, but also among women themselves. … for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from …

period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …

Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in … public accounting firms remain proportionally fewer in number in the highest levels of the hierarchy than men. This paper … aims to explore the mechanisms fostering women's rarity in top positions within French accounting firms in terms of …

and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production … the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …

The effects of women's strong investments in career and their relative positions on the household division of labor … female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share …

) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour …, and their differentiation by age and gender. Second, it offers a conceptualization of time and irreversibility which helps …

driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed …