Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet …, previous studies have mixed results and the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We … Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels and dynamics. Most types of FHHs are less …

ways men and women value the pre-mentioned. This is important, as global goals and national policy focus on the improvement … women's "optimism", notwithstanding their lower levels of endowments, the swb between genders was equalised. These results …