, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and … middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …

This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative … longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …

This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when … decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men … only in mixed-sex groups, indicating a gender-based component to the value of the social signal sent. Although men and …

At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the … demand side, employment in sectors appropriate for educated women grew less than the supply of educated workers, leading many …

'Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young … children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … entry and exit in this context. Using a nationally representative panel dataset, we show that women are not only … corrects for selection bias due to initial employment and panel attrition, to investigate the determinants of women's entry …

Since their inception in 1995, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Gender-Related Development Index (GDI …) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) have been criticized on conceptual and empirical grounds. In 2005-6, the UNDP's Human … adjusting the recommendations, making concrete proposals for two gender-related indicators, and presenting illustrative results …

At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the … demand side, employment in sectors appropriate for educated women grew less than the supply of educated workers, leading many …