. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on food? Second, are there gender inequalities in the distribution …

. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all … scenarios, biofuels accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty. However, a stronger tradeoff between biofuels and food …-shortage amongst female workers also limits poverty reduction. Policy simulations indicate that only modest improvements in women …

, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … than for elderly men and this gender difference is greater in the Netherlands than in Belgium. The paradox of …

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of … conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues considered are the space in which gender inequality in well … measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is necessarily the …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant … economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of gender inequalities: differences in labour market participation …

We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is …

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …