comprehensive overview of gender differences in property ownership in the developing world. Using Demographic and Health Survey data … are more likely to own property than women. Within countries, gender gaps are most pronounced for groups that are already … property ownership by women, especially housing. These results suggest that reforms to establish a more gender …

This paper uses a unique data set with 1.1 million customer transactions from a microfinance institution in 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 …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …

novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …