This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women … Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard …

This paper examines how easily observable interviewer characteristics, such as gender and physical attractiveness, and … gender attitudes and greater expectations about …

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms … of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work …

individuals' work activities. The problem is further complicated by the presence of widespread gender stratification of work and …

inputs and affect economic gender inequality in the home. Using data on smallholder farmer couples in Cote d'Ivoire, the …

Democratic Republic of Congo from 2017 to 2018. The paper provides evidence of assortative gender matching in agent banking … transactions, as clients prefer to transact with agents of their own gender. Female clients show a robust preference for female … balances. The underrepresentation of female agents may contribute to the persistent gender gap in financial access and usage …

-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …

to produce for sale at the end of the growing season of the main local crop than earlier in the season. Men are more …