This paper contributes to better understanding firms' discriminatory behavior in the presence of gender-based legal …

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 …

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 …

launch businesses. Gender inequality not only prevents women from achieving their full potential and gaining economic … identifies and analyzes investment incentives that governments can provide to businesses with the aim of promoting gender … equality. Barriers to gender equality in the workplace include supply-side barriers that make it difficult for women to find …

The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard … gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the …