Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 has amplified existing gender divisions that disadvantage women. What is the … distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic … market opportunities and outcomes - has for the large part relied on population wide differences between men and women. Using …

This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …-in-differences style identification strategy and a model with household fixed effects. The results suggest that while a migrant household … greater authority for the head of household. …

significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences … techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of …