In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children's education and allocation … of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women … that in households where women participate in children's education decisions and where women are aware of gender equality …

This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of … decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference …-in-differences style identification strategy and a model with household fixed effects. The results suggest that while a migrant household …

derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable …This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap …

derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable …This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap …

women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

the collective household model, we examine the possibility that men within couples use polygyny as a threat to influence …

While, women have always ‘worked’, in their homes, in fields and in public spaces, their work has been undervalued and … invisible in national data accounting systems. Globally women are less likely than men to participate in the paid labour market …, etc. which is mostly denied to women. Also, even when they do enter the workforce, women’s work tends to mirror the roles …

Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by … recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s unpaid care work. This paper presents new analysis of time use data and unpaid … on Women’s Economic Empowerment. Specifically, the recommendations focus on how to recognise unpaid care work by …

,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …, particularly for female-headed households. Women continue to bear a greater burden of responsibility for income …