We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable … resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality … women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal …

We study bank portfolio allocations during the transition of the real sector to a knowledge economy in which firms use …

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … supporting aggregate demand and improving gender gaps …

This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal spending. Gender … budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal policies and administration to address gender inequality … framework for assessing the effect of gender budgeting. States with gender budgeting efforts have made more progress on gender …

a possible widening of gender and inter-generational inequality and provide important inputs for the formulation of …

This paper examines the link between gender diversity in senior corporate positions and financial performance of 2 … senior positions and establish two potential channels through which gender diversity may affect firm performance. The … knowledge-intensive sectors) …

This paper provides an overview of the relation between tax policy and gender equality, covering labor, capital and … wealth, as well as consumption taxes. It considers implicit and explicit gender biases and corrective taxation. On labor …

Achieving gender equality remains a significant challenge, that has only deepened with the on-set of the COVID-19 … pandemic. Gender budgeting (GB) can help promote gender equality by applying a gender perspective to fiscal policies and the … and data gathered from an IMF survey. All G20 countries have enacted gender focused fiscal policies but the public …

The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have led to a rise in gender-based violence. In this paper, we explore the economic …