across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in …Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … high-density urban areas. In non-rural areas, child dependency does not constrain young women, and secondary education …

Goals, drawing on learning from the Social Institutions and Gender Index and in-country research by the OECD Policy Dialogue … tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. …

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we … characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got …

subjects condition their behaviour on the gender of their co-player. In order to identify the role of culture and gender norms …, we run the experiment in two countries, Norway and India, characterised by very different levels of gender inequality. We … find different patterns of gender effects in the two countries. In India, subjects are more ‘hawkish’ when facing a woman …

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …

linked to gender issues, namely time use and unpaid work, and domestic violence. Other examples are mentioned. The …

, we estimate the effects of exposure to female political leadership on gender attitudes and behaviors. For son preference …, we find that the gender quota reduced the propensity for parents with two daughters to give a third-parity birth, whereas … self-reported son preference revealed in survey data. We further find that the gender quota encouraged female high school …

's awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality between boys and girls at the household level. We estimate these effects … that in households where women participate in children's education decisions and where women are aware of gender equality … of women's empowerment and to understanding of the mechanisms to achieve gender equality in education. …

in contrast to its many previous failures. It concludes with predictions of future trends. -- Economics ; gender …