In this paper the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is constructed with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares (PLS). Using the SIGI, we test the effects of social institutions related to gender inequality on several development outcomes, such as female education,...

This dataset includes annual and quarterly detailed data on financial assets such as investment funds shares, net equity of households in life insurance reserves and net equity of households in pension funds reserves and financial liabilities such as short-term and long-term loans as well as...