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A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …
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The southern state of Kerala in India is known for greater status of women and low gender bias in society. However, the … has an additional gender intensification. Internal migration, stagnant agricultural and industrial growth and a vibrant …
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This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...
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In this article, we survey the theoretical literature investigating the role of gender inequality in economic … development. The vast majority of theories reviewed suggest that gender inequality is a barrier to development, particularly over …
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This study investigates how ameliorating gender inclusion affects sustainable development in Africa over the period … 2000-2019 in 42 African countries. It argues that enhancing gender inclusion in all sectors of society promotes and sets a … better pace for the attainment of sustainable development in Africa. The gender inclusion variable used is the females …
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With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, and in the world. The rate of female labor participation is especially low in the...
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This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …
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This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross-country data, the European Social Survey, the American...
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In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and … women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …
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considered along gender lines. The paper argues that culture alone cannot fully capture any real or perceived gender differences … dynamics. Therefore governments as well as other funding agencies should realise that gender-specific enterprise support is …
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