differences in women's economic opportunities and constraints. The paper also shows that these gender gaps not only affect gender … pay gaps, and violence against women. The paper presents some hypotheses that might explain this differential performance …

received as old. Over the life course the pension system distributes incomes from men to women, but women are more affected by …

. Our results show that social institutions that deprive women of their autonomy and bargaining power in the household, or …

apply a new 'flow' measure of 'missing women' to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries … of missing women are confirmed. The one finding that remains and deserves further attention is some evidence of gender …

relationship between representation of women in economic and political life, democracy and corruption, and bring in a new … previously omitted variable that captures the level of discrimination against women in a society: social institutions related to … gender inequality. Using a sample of developing countries we regress corruption on the representation of women, democracy and …

deprivation of women. Methodologically, the SIGI is inspired by the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures. It offers a new way …

The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … of Economic Studies, Anderson and Ray (AR) develop a new "flow" measure of missing women in developing countries by … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …

Existing estimates of the 'stock of missing women' suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …