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 …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age … about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap. …

increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer … resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing the bargaining power of women reduces pro-boy discrimination. We … find that expenditure patterns do vary with proxies for women's bargaining power. Pro-boy discrimination is suggested by …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the Philippine Labor Force Survey indicate that both men and women … to wage employment, women lost job opportunities in wage- and self-employment, and they experienced increases in unpaid … family work. Real wages fell for men and women, with much of the decline at the upper tails of the wage distribution. If one …