Thailand has made good progress in closing gender gaps in various dimensions, especially human capital development … gender and informality study by the World Bank Bangkok team led to the recommendations covered in this report …

in Mexico City. The study is based on focus group discussions and individual in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers … parents in Mexico City, decisions in favor of or against the use of childcare are based on: (1) the interplay between women …

This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a … Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) and Mulligan-Rubinstein (2008) decomposition to estimate the gender gap in wages. Our results suggest …

The gender composition of the medical profession is changing rapidly in many parts of the world, including Mexico. We …. The results suggest that Mexico is a particularly interesting example of the feminization of physician employment. Female …

around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay … child penalty and the prevailing gender norms and family policies in the region. We find that motherhood reduces women … more conservative gender norms and less generous family policies are associated with larger differences between mothers …