economy. At the individual level, we find that the macroeconomic shock reduces poverty and, to a lesser extent, income … find a job, substantially increasing their income and, in many cases, bringing them out of poverty. …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

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 …

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 …

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

by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally imported products. Our empirical results show that increasing … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long … pressures contributed to a general expansion of female-intensive industries, a shift in sectoral gender segregation, reductions …

trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …

greater rates of poverty decline and gains in wages and employment. We extend this literature by estimating the impact of … significant, especially for those in foreign sector and in the lowest income bracket. College premium decreases, and the gender …