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This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia....
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This paper analyzes gender bias in teaching in low-performing schools in Chile. To carry out the analyses, the authors … teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to female students. Gender bias had an even greater effect in classrooms … Classroom Assessment Scoring System, or CLASS) show a larger gender bias. Greater gender bias is also correlated with lower …
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Using quantile regression analyses, this study examines gender gaps in mathematics, science, and reading in Azerbaijan … social characteristics appear unrelated to achievement gender gaps. Second, the overachievement of girls in reading and …
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Microfinance industry has grown massively in the past decades. Even if it is commonly considered as an important development tool, the evidence of the socio-economic impact of microfinance is mixed, regardless of what methodology has been applied. The purpose of this study is to assess the...
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We design a field experiment to study gender differences in misconduct, a significant yet poorly understood issue. We … the matches between vendors and customers, finding strong evidence of “gender misconduct gap”: female vendors are 40% more …-96% relatively more likely to suffer misconduct, and while female vendors discriminate against customers of their gender, male …
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A review of the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training interventions questions their gender …. These features help women overcome gender-related constraints. However, when social norms are too restrictive, and women are … de-biasing service provision, which can be gender biased; lastly, whenever possible, results should be sex …
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This study aims to integrate two issues surrounding Thailand's labor market: (1) gender wage gap and (2) informal … workers. The purpose of this study is to examine the gender wage gap of formal and informal workers in Thailand by geographic …-Oaxaca decomposition. The results of this study confirm that there is a gender wage gap in Thailand. Even when females have better …
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market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …
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Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct … the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis epidemic in Niger on the gender gap in education. We document a …
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Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural...
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