Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to … condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. While gender … economically direct way by which governments can influence individual behavior, requests have been made for gender-responsive tax …

recent high oil prices through a gender lens in South Africa. A multisector general equilibrium framework is developed to … shock. The gender employment gap also increases under the fixed petroleum price scenarios regardless of the tax … decomposed by type of industry to further explore its gender employment impact. Simulation results indicate that the gender …

assumption may be problematic in developing-country agriculture, where women play a fundamental role in farming. Using gender … gender-specific network effects on demand for laser land leveling—a resource-conserving technology—using data from a … field experiment that combines a Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) auction with a lottery. …

This paper examines household asset dynamics and gender-differentiated asset inequality over a 20-year period (1988 … empirical results on poverty traps. We also investigate whether initial household endowments contributed to gender … the relative prices of the assets in gender-differentiated asset portfolios. Men, who primarily held larger livestock with …