This study uses a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 … years to test for the impact of legal reforms on employment, health, and education outcomes for women and girls. The … equality or non-discrimination as a guiding principle of the country's constitution. In the initial period, 75 countries had …

international conventions, such as the Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), women's political …Using a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 years … own assets, to sign legal documents in one's own name, and to have equality or non-discrimination as a guiding principle …

statistical discrimination, and externalities from social networks). This essay discusses four additional mechanisms that bounded … rationality can explain: (i) implicit discrimination, (ii) self-stereotyping and self-censorship, (iii) ?fast thinking? adapted to …

The paper develops a new theory of group discrimination in which the discrimination in favor or against certain groups … complementarity between doing different tasks. The theory helps us understand discrimination in free markets and the .finding of some … constant. The model gives insight into the relation between group size, discrimination, and productivity …

Labor market discrimination is very difficult to pinpoint, even more difficult to measure and almost impossible to … the manner in which discrimination plays out and how it is related to different forms of social stratification. This paper … reviews the literature and makes two main contributions: first, it builds a four-fold typology to think about discrimination …

, alternatively, ethnicity-based differences are larger for women compared with men. The findings suggest that the intersection of …

Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people is widespread, and LGBTI … is a development challenge; not only because discrimination is inherently unjust, but also because ?there are substantial … programs. This study documents, for the first time, discrimination against LGBTI people in access to education and housing in …

monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash …

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 … percentage points. Two main explanations are found. First, women identify themselves (and are identified) primarily as housewives …