traditionally male owned could provide an opportunity to earn higher returns, then what factors could encourage women to cross over … the firm performance and characteristics of women in male-dominated sectors (crossovers) with women who are in female … results show that crossovers do not necessarily have more education or greater skills than noncrossovers. Rather, women …

the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have … women-to-men adult mortality rates is robust to several checks and also confirmed using the instrumental variables approach …

and identifies several factors that have altered the bargaining position of men and women over the last decades. It then … reviews empirical work on the contribution of men, as fathers and husbands, to the health and socioeconomic outcomes of women … unintentionally affected men's attitudes and behaviors. The main implication is that policies meant to achieve gender equality should …

owners relative to men. The gap in female entrepreneurship is especially apparent in low-income economies, where women are … female entrepreneurship and various institutional factors, including women's financial inclusion, the gender gap in education … 2016. The paper finds that the gender gap in business ownership remains high in many economies around the world. In the …

productivity of non-farm entrepreneurship. Except for Ethiopia, women are less likely than men to become nonfarm entrepreneurs …Despite their increasing prominence in policy debates, little is known about gender inequities in non …, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper documents and analyzes gender differences in the individual portfolio choice and …

Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? The evidence shows this to be the case, especially in low … respond to declining income with coping strategies that can vary significantly by gender. In the past, women from low …-income countries. The first-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should be particularly salient in the current …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the … promoting the role of women in growth strategies …

ex ante risk-mitigating production decisions. Standard ordinary least squares regression results indicate that gender … matters as well; however, the measured productivity gap between male and female farmers disappears when gender is included in …

skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half …

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