and gender inequality; 4) we find that the distribution of obesity between the female and male populations represents a …Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps … perspective to the current debate on measuring gender inequality in human development. As a starting point, we develop a simple …

The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are … particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender obesity gaps on average exceed 10 percentage … points. This paper examines one of the explanations, namely the role of female empowerment on gender gaps in obesity. We …

largest during the child's teen years. I find indirect evidence that this gender weight gap is associated with bargaining …

scholars regarding how stereotypes based on race and gender can impact voters' perceptions of candidate traits and viability … study uses an experiment to fill this gap and ask how race, gender, and party stereotypes interact to shape evaluations of … candidate evaluation studies that treat race, gender, and party as separate, independent variables may be incomplete …