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or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on … assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking … paper outlines a framework for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used to identify win-win solutions based on …
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This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … drivers of gender differences, as well as issues of social inclusion, and to explore policy approaches to improve learning … progress on gender parity in education; however, the national averages mask important variations at the subnational level …
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Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions … of women-led firms. This paper examines a potential driver of these disparities: gender-biased loan officers. Officer … reducing gender biased loan allocations by 6 percent. The results suggest that loan officers may use gender bias as a heuristic …
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audit study, an online job portal in Turkey is used to send fictitious resumes to real job openings, collecting a unique …. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …
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individuals' work activities. The problem is further complicated by the presence of widespread gender stratification of work and …
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The literature lends empirical support for the idea that improvements to transport infrastructure lead to economic development. How and why the benefits of better transport differ between genders is less clear. This paper attempts to answer this question by combining a nonexperimental impact...
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