Several economies have laws that treat women differently from men. This study explores the degree of such legal gender … disparities across 167 economies around the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure of legal gender disparities … associated with a wide range of outcomes, including years of education of women relative to men, labor force participation rates …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world … measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. The paper focuses on the relationship between age, sex and poverty. And … finds that, girls and women of reproductive age are more likely to live in poor households (below the international poverty …

The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak …. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of …

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 … women's economic rights, including 28 countries that had eliminated all of the constraints monitored here. In the cross …

Using a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 years … international conventions, such as the Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), women's political … representation at the national level, mobilization of women's networks, and increasing labor force participation in sectors that …

This paper studies the effects of policies aimed at mitigating discrimination against women in the marketplace on the … inversely with the presence of skilled women (as agents of change) in the labor market and has a direct impact on their … presence of skilled women in the labor market, a trade-off may emerge with respect to female unemployment when anti …

schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle …-income countries. The analysis finds that post-secondary schooling and cognitive skills are more important for women's earnings at the … lower end and middle of the earnings distribution, and that men and women have positive returns to openness to new …

Women's ownership, use, and control over property matter for their well-being and agency and can influence outcomes for … the second generation -- women's daughters and sons. Additionally, gender gaps in property ownership induce allocative …-Saharan Africa to shine a spotlight on gaps between men and women in land and housing (property) ownership and analyze patterns …

the application increases callbacks by more than 60 percent, with women driving the effect. Letters are effective because …, employment rates for women encouraged to obtain a letter increase by 49 percent, closing the gender gap in the sample …