are still gender differences in investment behaviour. We conduct a thorough literature review and empirical analysis based …. Controlling for selected socio-economic variables, we find that women have significantly less holdings in risky assets. This …

the estimates. In addition, the evidence for urban areas contradicts the hypothesis they claim to hold for rural areas …

Gender affects household spending in two areas that have been widely studied in the literature. One strand documents … consumption. An important source of intrahousehold bargaining power is ownership of assets, especially land. Another strand … examines gender bias in spending on children. This paper addresses both strands simultaneously. In it, differences in spending …

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …

issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, discrimination is not. …

relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … gendered, reflecting local institutions such as accepted gender norms which may force women into specific industries or …

Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary … determinants of time poverty show that measures of bargaining power like assets and education do not necessarily affect time …