Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …

This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …

has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition …, gender-related inefficiency in household production might undermine the positive impact of improved incentives. Using data …

-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of … democracy in this region. This paper addresses the question of whether this observed gender gap is due to the omission of social … institutions related to gender inequality, something that affects women's daily life and deprives them of autonomy at home. We …

This paper analyzes gender bias in teaching in low-performing schools in Chile. To carry out the analyses, the authors … teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to female students. Gender bias had an even greater effect in classrooms … Classroom Assessment Scoring System, or CLASS) show a larger gender bias. Greater gender bias is also correlated with lower …

We design a field experiment to study gender differences in misconduct, a significant yet poorly understood issue. We … the matches between vendors and customers, finding strong evidence of “gender misconduct gap”: female vendors are 40% more …-96% relatively more likely to suffer misconduct, and while female vendors discriminate against customers of their gender, male …

A review of the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training interventions questions their gender …. These features help women overcome gender-related constraints. However, when social norms are too restrictive, and women are … de-biasing service provision, which can be gender biased; lastly, whenever possible, results should be sex …

Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct … the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis epidemic in Niger on the gender gap in education. We document a …