policies to promote gender equality and empower women. Although enough is known about such policies to implement them … processes. Using country-level data, the paper estimates the costs of interventions aimed at promoting gender equality and women … achieving gender equality, first for the five countries, and subsequently for all low-income countries. …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in …