sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …, likely to strengthen the association between debt and poverty for women, and in particular to exacerbate female …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find that women legislators are less likely to be criminal and …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …

This paper draws on history, anthropology, and economics to examine the dynamics and extent of women's contribution to … education and the persistence of gender discrimination in labor force participation; it also considers the overwhelming … gender gaps enhances growth in per capita gross domestic product and reduces female fertility rates and infant mortality. The …

Bringing together history and economics, this paper presents a historical and processual understanding of women …'s economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … major arguments. First, it discusses the historical processes through which the labor of women was increasingly appropriated …

reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and … estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … poverty reduction …