Showing 1 - 10 of 627
disparities across 167 economies around the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure of legal gender disparities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968201
This paper uses cross-section data for 107 countries to explore the relationship between gender inequality and economic growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender inequality in education, which has been the focus of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972226
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893920
's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012845599
Empowering women to engage in productive employment is not only critical to achieving gender equality but also critical for economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper studies the pattern of female activity and gender segmentation in the Indian manufacturing and services sectors. Although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967915
men or women were randomly assigned the task of learning about a new agricultural technology, and then communicating it to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968761
This paper relaxes the single-factor model of intergenerational educational mobility and analyzes heterogeneous effects of family background on children?s education in villages, with a focus on the role of nonfarm occupations. The analysis uses data from rural China that cover three generations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970763
This paper decomposes the gender gap in pay in the Russian Federation along the earnings distribution for the period 1996?2011. The analysis uses a reweighted, recentered influence function decomposition that allows estimating the contribution of each covariate on the wage structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971130
This paper studies gender education gaps among indigenous and nonindigenous groups in Bolivia. Using the National Census of Population and Housing 2012 and an estimation method analogous to difference-in-differences, the paper finds that the intersection of gender and indigenous identity confers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971271
This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997?which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure?on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971342