This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … inequality. We consider a model where firms differ in their productivity and workers are differentiated by skill as well as … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New …

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics …

This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID …. Long-run wealth inequality dynamics appear to be highly unstable. We stress the need for more democratic transparency on …

earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data … used to study earnings inequality. We show that the trends in earnings inequality in the administrative data from the …

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … US. There are two potential explanations. First, Europeans prefer more equal societies (inequality belongs in the utility … ideological lines. There is evidence of inequality generated' unhappiness in the US only for a sub-group of rich leftists. In …

-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women …

women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing …