We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly …') do not explain gender differences. Our findings suggest early interventions may reduce gender differences in labour …

and age groups. Using representative and repeated census data from a heterogeneous sample of sub-Saharan African countries …, we show that declining female labour supply at early working age is explained by increasing school attendance among young … participation and female educational attainment across the working age. Female education is further positively related to female …

that of fathers. In terms of gender differences, there is the evidence of a dependency burden in the occupational choice of …

related to preference for favourable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences … along with selected personality traits are the most relevant explanations for gender differences in willingness to compete …

2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls' school attendance differs markedly by age. School attendance of young …' schooling turns from positive to negative with girls' age; this implies that migration may be detrimental to women's empowerment …