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After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an...
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highlight the intersection between climate change and gender-based violence and harassment by exploring how climate change … female) workers in the sector as a result of its impact on productivity. It is important to note that gender-based violence … current trends continue. In addition, gender-based violence tends to increase with higher levels of socio …
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Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in … a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …
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