yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …Existing estimates of the ’tock of missing women’ suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …

'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 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 …