urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post …-pandemic relative to pre-pandemic, while their monthly earnings fell by 89 per cent relative to the baseline mean. In contrast, women … husbands. In contrast, staying employed during the pandemic is associated with worse mental health for women and their …

India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares …

Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for … women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …

paper on the gender impact of the pandemic and the consequent lockdowns and curfews in the city of Delhi, India, seeks to …Studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated that poor women have been the worst sufferers in terms … of pay cuts and job losses. Women are the hardest hit also at the household level. They have to bear the brunt of …

needs to be done to enhance women's access to assets, skills training, and better-quality employment. Further gender … design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …'s employment policies from a gender perspective by adopting a functional approach. We examine policies with (1) a labour market …

, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … argue that women's engagement in Liberian civil wars as combatants and peace activists reconstitute gender norms and gender …This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …

In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning …

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …-disaggregated data and patchy gender-integration in policies and operational responses. To remedy this, the World Bank (WB) and the …

Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial … inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression … analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money services has led to increased access to formal financial services, women still …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …