development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …, and/or nutritional improvements that are the result of economic development and growth. -- schooling ; gender ; twins …

development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …

A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …

In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic … development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over …

We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable … resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality … women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal …

policies (increase in education spending and infrastructure investment, and governance reform), gender-based policies …’ education), and a composite reform program (combination of pro-growth, pro-gender policies). Overall, our findings suggest that …In this paper, we develop a three-period gender-based Overlapping Generations (OLG) model of economic growth for Côte d …

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

and statistically significant relationship between gender equality in education and growth based on 216 estimates from 17 …We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the impact of gender inequality in … education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies …