This paper examines gender inequality in the context of structural transformation and rebalancing in China. We document … declining women's relative wages and labor force participation in China during the last two decades, despite rapid growth and … expansion of the service sector. Using household data, we provide evidence consistent with a U-shaped relationship between …

This paper assesses the impact on the poor of the economic reforms undertaken in Bangladesh under Fund …

reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal …It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy-along with the …

The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have led to a rise in gender-based violence. In this paper, we explore the economic … consequences of violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa using large demographic and health survey data collected pre …-pandemic. Relying on a two-stage least square method to address endogeneity, we find that an increase in the share of women subject to …

This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A … dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to study the impact of gender-targeted policies on female labor force … participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using …

This paper shows that during the 1990s, and before the 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea, the gender gap in education … in Eritrea has widened on the national level, and large regional disparities have persisted. The gender gap appears to be … linked to lower female teacher participation and limited employment opportunities. The widening of the gender gap is likely …

This paper discusses the evolution of the household debt in Australia and finds that while higher-income and higher … depending on the level of household debt. The results corroborate other work that households' response to monetary policy shocks …

This paper investigates the income distributional implications of different value-added tax (VAT) schemes in Bangladesh …