and regional growth in Germany, India, Mexico, Spain, and the USA. We find that, contrary to expectations … above (India and Mexico), but not in those where it has been driven from below (Spain). The paper hypothesises that the …

This paper analyses the scope and limitations of gender responsive budgeting in Mexico within the overall framework of … fiscal decentralisation. However, decentralised gender responsive budgeting can be meaningful only when the local governments … have significant assignment of functions and finance. Therefore, although the focus of the paper is gender responsiveness …

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. …

-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 …

gender, age, marital status or even physique) to describe their ideal candidates, to which we will refer as explicit …