indicators often targeted in women's empowerment programs, such as gender norms and female employment and education. These …

China has used two main spatial policies to shape its geographic patterns of development: restricted labor mobility … regional economic development and urbanization patterns across China. The results suggest large overall economic benefits from …

India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Fathers' nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining a …

leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …