's awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality between boys and girls at the household level. We estimate these effects … of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women … using three rounds of longitudinal data of rural households in Pakistan. We use both household and year fixed effects to …

decisions. This contradirectional gender bias is unique to Bangladesh and partly explained by the presence of conditional cash …A target in the Millennium Development Goals — gender parity in all levels of education — is widely considered to have … been attained. However, measuring gender parity only through school enrollment is misleading, as girls may lag behind boys …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …