of schooling, and primary and secondary school completion. Although gender education gaps have become narrower across …This paper studies gender education gaps among indigenous and nonindigenous groups in Bolivia. Using the National … the intersection of gender and indigenous identity confers cumulative disadvantage for indigenous women in literacy, years …

impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics of households, including their … demographic profiles and traditional gender roles. To date, attention to the gender impacts of conflict has focused almost … exclusively on sexual and gender-based violence. The authors show that a far wider set of gender issues must be considered to …

the second generation -- women's daughters and sons. Additionally, gender gaps in property ownership induce allocative … over property. Gender gaps are smaller if joint ownership is taken into consideration, but still materially disadvantage … paper is an important step toward a better understanding of gender gaps in property ownership in Africa and outlines an …

The reversal of the gender gap in educational attainment is becoming a global phenomenon. Its drivers, however, are not … females' average scholastic performance and returns to education have increased over time relative to males'. The paper … authors find that both hypotheses strongly predict the gender gap dynamics in educational attainment when estimated separately …

In developing countries, younger and better-educated cohorts are entering the workforce. This developing world …-led education wave is altering the skill composition of the global labor supply, and impacting income distribution, at the national … and global levels. This paper analyzes how this education wave reshapes global inequality over the long run using a …

disparities across 167 economies around the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure of legal gender disparities …Several economies have laws that treat women differently from men. This study explores the degree of such legal gender … to evaluate how countries perform. The average number of overall legal gender disparities across 167 economies is 17 …

relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …

relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …