poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …

participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …

out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. …

gender roles, and also because it is likely to increase men's likelihood of using domestic violence as an instrument. Our … findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …

colonialism on several drivers of women empowerment including education, fertility, marital age, gender norms, etc. While our …

underlying gender norms. We identify the impact of the policy by exploiting the program rule that assigned roads based on the …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …