recent times, one aspect which remains largely unexplored is the importance of gender sensitivity in trade facilitation. The … gender dimensions of trade facilitation and logistics have largely been examined in sub-Saharan Africa. In South Asia …, however, not much attention has been given to understand the gender impact of services involved in trade facilitation like …

around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay … child penalty and the prevailing gender norms and family policies in the region. We find that motherhood reduces women … more conservative gender norms and less generous family policies are associated with larger differences between mothers …