Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily income earners (such as market vendors), and collected a unique dataset … no interest and featured substantial withdrawal fees, take-up and usage was high among women. In addition, we find that … the savings accounts had substantial, positive impacts on productive investment levels and expenditures for women, but had …

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as … find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women. …

Comparisons of the economic position of single older women in various industrialized countries have shown substantial … differences, especially regarding the proportion of widows, divorcees, and never-married women experiencing poverty. This review … lower poverty rates for women aged 65 or over who are on their own. …

only with their gendered assumptions about women's carework; compared to other countries, they also do less to reduce …

into account the fact that women still face an unequal access to tertiary education in many less developed countries, it … appears that women are over-represented in the brain drain. This result is reinforced by econometric estimates showing that … emigration of highly skilled women is higher, the poorer is their country of origin. This effect is also observed for men but to …

gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …

Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses …, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as fair. Prime … results show that women's relative unhappiness is likely to be causes by their increasing earning powers with relative to men …

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women's labour market participation? This issue is … light of trends in women's participation in the labour market and two key changes in the structure of taxation: a shift from …