, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to … basket, we estimate a demand system for food and we find that targeting payments to mothers induces, for different food …

contributions, a lump-sum redistribution from fathers to mothers may make children better off, but both parents worse off, or vice … cost of both parents. Thus, proposals to redistribute income from fathers to mothers need to take into account socially …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash … transfer policies may not necessarily hasten educational and gender transition in the process of development …

's later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … their mothers held non-traditional (pro-gender-equality) beliefs, even if they were not working themselves. Consistent with …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

participation and their wages have risen substantially. Our results suggest that there are gender-specific differences, e.g. female …

for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of … the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our difference-in-differences estimates show that the policy changes were … successful in improving labor market attachment and increasing disposable income of new lone mothers. By contrast, the reform led …