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 …

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and …

characteristics, parental background, and village characteristics. Therefore policies that reduce household poverty are likely to …

, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we … show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …

between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools). We present a theoretical framework … the sense that women have a relatively high level of mobility, the effect of non-religious school availability on … attendance does not vary by gender. However in the more "conservative communities", female schooling is more sensitive to the …

investigate how numerous variables relate to preferences for egalitarian gender norms in rural Bangladesh. …

old age by investigating the role of adult children's gender in the context of Thailand, an aging Asian country with no … men, older women systematically benefit from a "daughter effect." Coresiding daughters with a university education and …

characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost the satisfaction of women proportionately more than that of men, thereby … higher satisfaction but similarly for both demographic groups thereby reducing the gender gap in job satisfaction only … relevant but they only explain a half of the gender gap in job satisfaction, suggesting that the other half may be due to …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction … well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh. Programme impact is assessed on a wide range of monetary and nonmonetary …-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …