identify household and commune characteristics and emphasize how the effects of these characteristics vary by gender. The … gender differences we find suggest that unequal treatment of girls within their households has a negative impact on their … educational attainment and that in the absence of such unequal treatment the reverse gender gap would be even larger. We find …

infrastructure and insurgent recruitment through a difference-in-differences design, focusing on the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey. We … ethnoreligious distribution of over 30,000 villages in Turkey with data sources that provide information on insurgents' birthplaces …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …

an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps … explores two potential sources of gender bias: bias in the decision to enrol/keep boys and girls in school; and bias in the … educational expenditure on boys and girls enrolled in school. Our findings are illuminating: gender bias in households …

We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect …. Second, male dictators appropriate a greater share of the pie than females and more is taken from known gender (male …

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 …

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 …

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. …

identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …