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Female managers and firm performance : evidence from the Caribbean countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021

This paper investigates whether firm performance differs significantly when comparing firms with female and male top managers in the Caribbean region. We use survey data with detailed information on gender for firms in 13 Caribbean countries. Our methodology is based on Blinder- Oaxaca...

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Closing the gap : gender and innovation

Barasa, Laura - 2020

Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data … from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises … innovation performance into the endowments effect that reflects resource endowments and the coefficients effect relating to …

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Puzzle me this? : the Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

Mergoupis, Thanos; Phan, Van; Sessions, John G. - 2018

We investigate within the context of Viet Nam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify household and commune characteristics and...

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The challenge fund aid modality : assessing the potential for tackling gender challenges in development

Gulrajani, Nilima - 2013

analysis by examining if, and how, two Challenge Funds - DfID's Business Innovation Facility and Sida's Innovations Against … Innovations Against Poverty offers a more robust focus on gender challenges than the Business Innovation Fund. Nevertheless, this …

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Impact of sectoral allocation of foreign aid on gender equity and human development

Pickbourn, Lynda; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2013

While developing countries have made some progress in achieving human development since the turn of the century, many are still lagging behind in important human development goals such as education, health, nutrition and access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation. Moreover, gender...

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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - 2014

Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that identifies linkages between gender, economic development,...

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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sector

Ganguli, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina - 2017

While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relation to economic development. We use a unique panel dataset of employees from Latin America's...

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The differential impact of economic crisis on men and women, and its connection to intrahousehold bargaining

Dong, Sarah Xue - 2017

This paper discusses whether the Asian financial crisis affected men and women differently in Indonesia by estimating the effect of district consumption shock during the crisis on changes in men's and women's working status and assets. I found that in rural areas there seems to be no effect of...

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...

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