also has a persistent effect on gender equality by empowering women’s careers …The gender education gap has been narrowing worldwide in recent decades. We provide the first causal evidence on how … foreign direct investment (FDI) affects the gender education gap. By exploiting the quasi-exogenous deregulation of FDI entry …

In this paper I develop a theoretical foundation for analyzing how gender roles in the household affect foreign direct … investment in a developing country context. It is argued that the extent to which women and men share the costs of social … reproduction at the household level is a central determinant of women's labor supply and the profitability of investment. I combine …