Income transfers from social programs are often not gender neutral and should, according to the vast literature on intra-household decision making and allocation, affect the distribution of bargaining power within the household. This result, however, was by and large established under the...

En su influyente artículo, Guiso et al. (2008) descubrieron una relación positiva entre distintas medidas de igualdad de género y la brecha de género en matemáticas (que tiende a favorecer a los niños), explotando la variación de datos transversales de las puntuaciones en las pruebas de...

This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male and female teenagers. In particular, we show that descending from more gender-equal societies...

This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male and female teenagers. In particular, we show that descending from more gender-equal societies...