different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …

whole population, for (ii) females, for (iii) males and for (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence … mortality rates as indicators for the health status and analyse the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the … Concordance) are used to test for absolute and conditional beta-convergence in mortality. We find mixed results for the inequality …

, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

This paper examines rates of return to schooling in Kazakhstan using OLS and instrumental variable (IV) methodologies … underestimate the true rates of return. The results indicate that the returns to schooling in Kazakhstan have increased with … transition. This may reflect the relative scarcities of highly educated people in Kazakhstan with human capital that employers …