Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …

suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender … status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent … country studies find export led growth in middle and low income countries is associated with improvements in women …

this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences … and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …

We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared … labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the … selected jobs. We find that women get 33% less interview invitations when they apply for jobs implying a first promotion in …

Using data from the U.S. National Incident Based Reporting System we document a gender gap in the number of crimes … committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …, measured in terms of earnings and probability of arrest. We observe that women obtain on average 32% less criminal earnings and …

reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … current intra-household gender-disparities in getting medical care at least for life threatening illnesses. …

National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. The standard glass ceiling … hypothesis highlights the belief that the playing field is level for women and men in the labor market up to a point, after which … there is an effective limit on advancement for women. We examine the glass ceiling hypothesis by looking at the dynamics of …

In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited … liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the … corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the newly (post …