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We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affects their economic performance. We study a large business … women are significantly outperformed by all other gender combinations, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Looking … development, and invest more in social sustainability initiatives than does any other gender combination. <i>This paper was …
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This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men's and women's ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people. Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively...
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We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child … exchange, suggesting again that gender dimensions of networks may be important to diffusion of the crop. We use data from an …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This … control of assets relative to a control group, and of those only one project provided evidence of a reduction in the gender … asset gap. The quantitative and qualitative findings suggest ways that greater attention to gender and assets by researchers …
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gender gaps in landownership across countries. However, critical data gaps cloud our understanding of land rights and why …
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including exclusive breastfeeding, children’s dietary diversity score, minimum dietary diversity and minimum acceptable diet …, children’s height-for-age, weight-for-height, and weight-for-age z-scores, and women’s dietary diversity score and body mass … positively and significantly correlated with women’s dietary diversity, but not body mass index. This suggests that improved …
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