I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

on the growth channels of human capital, particularly on women’s empowerment, despite its theoretical underpinning and … women’s empowerment through the "factor accumulation channel" and the "productivity channel" on SADC using cross …-run effects using the CS-ARDL shows that the factor accumulation and productivity channels of women’s empowerment have not …

history, we find that the opening of schools providing secondary education for women increased their representation among the … higher human capital, connecting women to form a social movement. We find no evidence of other city-specific indicators of … increasing representation of women among the human capital elite, as the opening of gender-specific schools has no impact on the …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …