We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may … irrelevance theorem: parental bias does not affect relative mobility. Withdiminishing returns and complementarity, the CEF can be …

This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …

How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and …

This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal …

The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by … contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative … sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and …

credit access to women in households on overall household well-being. This paper aims to measure the effects of providing … credit to women compared to men on household well-being indicators. The study utilizes a novel geocoded dataset focusing on … the women and effective targeting of poorer households with loans to women members. This highlights that addressing credit …

; prenatal sex selection ; sex ratio at birth ; gender discrimination ; child health …

groups; and (iv) a pro-male bias exists in educational spending for all age groups, with some differentiation by location and …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …Existing estimates of the ’tock of missing women’ suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …