Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic … opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …

under-invest in outcomes for their female children. Linking the gender composition of children in Indian households to their … ranges from 7-14% in urban and 3-7% in rural areas, respectively. Various heterogeneity analysis suggest that the reduction … in this paper provide a new first stage association between gender composition of children and sanitation behavior and …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …

decision to become an entrepreneur substantially differ across gender. Present study provides empirical evidences towards … individuals' entry into rural non-farm micro-entrepreneurship focusing on gender issue. Based on primary data collected in Assam … industry. The results reveal the existence gender differences with respect to magnitude and direction in the determinants of …

close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes how low skill rural-urban migration in Brazil from 1986 to 2000 … lead to an increase in the labor supply of high skill women living in urban areas. In our model we show how large inflows …

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. …