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 …

research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. We provide a prototype of such a course, and we show how … gender-aware content and pedagogical tools can complement a course based on a standard textbook or set of articles. We also …

This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …

This paper explores the relationship between gender wage gaps and women's overall health. Using data from the 2011 …-2019 Current Population Survey, we employ entropy balancing to create comparable samples of men and women and estimate wage gaps … for full-time employed working-age women. Adjusting for individual, occupation, and industry characteristics, we estimate …

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …