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 …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world … measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. The paper focuses on the relationship between age, sex and poverty. And … finds that, girls and women of reproductive age are more likely to live in poor households (below the international poverty …

The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak …. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of …