Elli Scambor und Daniel Holtermann erkunden die historischen und strukturellen Gründe für die geringe Beteiligung von Männern an formeller und informeller Sorgearbeit. Sie stellen dem das Konzept von "Caring Masculinities" gegenüber: männliche Rollenbilder, die Werte wie Aufmerksamkeit und...

"When Chinese women bound their daughters' feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child's body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is...

This paper studies the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation rates and test scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. The identification strategy is the random allocation into the program, which took place in 2009. The strategy...

The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged...