Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic … opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to …

close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes how low skill rural-urban migration in Brazil from 1986 to 2000 … lead to an increase in the labor supply of high skill women living in urban areas. In our model we show how large inflows …

Goals, drawing on learning from the Social Institutions and Gender Index and in-country research by the OECD Policy Dialogue … tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. …

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …

are still gender differences in investment behaviour. We conduct a thorough literature review and empirical analysis based …. Controlling for selected socio-economic variables, we find that women have significantly less holdings in risky assets. This …

disparities in the opportunities that these women meet with across American urban areas. As opposed to other studies that are … territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …