neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related factors such as ethnicity and gender. By looking at both channels together …) lenders have a statistically significant preference for borrowers with whom they share gender and ethnic similarity even after …

We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We … dispersion of parental education in the school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share …

-groups according to age and education. The public sector wage penalty for males has decreased recently over time and is larger for the …

opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … context, concepts, and definitions relevant to SP policies and identifies gender-specific social and economic risks and …

Utilizing a nationally representative sample of households from Sri Lanka, this study examines gender differences in …

two applicants differ with respect to characteristics such as gender, age, education, experience, ethnicity, religious …

canonical model of skill-biased technological change augmented with a gender dimension, an endogenous market/home labor choice … and a multi-sector environment accounts well for gender and overall employment polarization. The model also accounts for …

This paper traces the origins and early history of perceived gender differences in absenteeism in Great Britain and the … policy makers referred to gender differences in absenteeism to motivate wage discrimination. …

This paper seeks to evaluate whether a gender-sensitive formula for the inter se devolution of union taxes to the … the most in terms of its share in the horizontal devolution. It is observed that the inclusion of gender criteria makes …