This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

question of gender and youth deprivation in the context of the Moroccan labor market. They find that the reference group (the …

long been substantially urbanized and gender-equitable in public life — factors associated with declines in sex …

country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using national data from the Uganda National … methods were combined with an Oaxaca decomposition to investigate the gender differences in resource endowment and return to …

Using in-home health records for 1,763 children in Mali, this paper examines gender differences in the uptake and … for symptoms. There are no gender differences in starting treatment, but boys are over 10 percentage points more likely to …

several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …

This paper examines the causes and dynamics of the shift in the gender composition of migration, and more particularly …

educational gender gap remains in some countries. This paper argues that one explanation for this gender gap is the degree of … paper is a first application of the concept to explain gender gaps in education. The paper discusses the importance of … female education for economic and social development, reviews the evidence regarding gender and ethnic differences in …