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 …

More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female … exacting on women in these parts of the world. All these estimates 'missing women' were based on demographic information of the … 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, there has been considerable speculation about current trends of gender bias in mortality …

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 …

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 …

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating … analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic …