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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … decisions to analyze how the design of a privatized pension system affects gender pension gaps. Chile has one of the longest … countries and was reformed in 2008 to alleviate old- age poverty and reduce gender pension gaps. The paper estimates the dynamic …
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Wage inequality has declined in Mexico since 2000. Using data from Mexican labor surveys for the period between 2000 and 2014, this paper investigates whether the decline was driven by wages declining more sharply for younger or older workers. The analysis finds that the wages of older workers...
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between the mid-1990s and the mid-2010s, the effective retirement age rose rapidly in the Central and Eastern European region …. This increase was fast enough to keep life expectancies at the effective retirement age practically unchanged. In effect … maintaining the current life expectancies at retirement over the next thirty years requires less effort in terms of further …
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This study examines recall bias in farm labor by conducting a randomized survey experiment in Ghana. Hours of farm labor obtained from a recall survey conducted at the end of the season are compared with data collected weekly throughout the season. The study finds that the recall method...
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This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked...
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The literature lends empirical support for the idea that improvements to transport infrastructure lead to economic development. How and why the benefits of better transport differ between genders is less clear. This paper attempts to answer this question by combining a nonexperimental impact...
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This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic activities, including production for own consumption,...
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What are the costs to women of harassment on public transit? This study randomizes the price of a women-reserved "safe space" in Rio de Janeiro and crowdsource information on 22,000 rides. Women in the public space experience harassment once a week. A fifth of riders are willing to forgo 20...
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for about 11 percent of firms and are more prevalent in countries with better rule of law, gender equality, and stronger … related to gender equality, it is smaller where there isless emphasis on personal networks (better rule of law, lower trade …
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procedures, tariffs, and rights to small-scale traders to facilitate border crossings, lower corruption, and reduce gender … gender-based violence by 5.4 percentage points (30.5 percentage points among compliers). The paper assesses competing …
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