. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of … arranged marriages with minimum involvement of the bride. Overall results suggest a change in gender norms after 18 years of …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by … family. An increased education level is likely to raise women's earning capacity as well as the quality of jobs which may …

second child. Next, I show that the increase in family size caused by this relaxation in the One Child Policy increased …

paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … address unpaid care work. Doing so would improve economic and human development and reduce gender inequality. …

simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …

important contributing factors explaining the gender productivity gap are firm characteristics, such as firm size, age of the …

probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …