Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …

Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions …, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change … the achievement of greater gender equality can be offset by appropriately targeted government policies. …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded …

child penalty and the prevailing gender norms and family policies in the region. We find that motherhood reduces women … more conservative gender norms and less generous family policies are associated with larger differences between mothers …

This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … from developing countries, we measure long-term trends, describe geographical patterns, and estimate correlates of gender … gender gap. Across countries, the gender gap is smaller in richer countries, with lower fertility rates, and more …

This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan … leads to more progressive gender norms. Furthermore, these effects in gender perceptions are driven mostly by male students … to female peers operates not only by reducing traditional gender perceptions but also by changing actual behaviour …

variations in mobility across gender and region, and discuss the macro-level correlates of educational mobility in developing …