methodological approach. -- gender ; assets ; asset accumulation ; urban … time. This paper seeks to examine the relationship not only between gender and urban income poverty but also, more … importantly, between gender and urban asset accumulation, illustrating how the combination of quantitative econometric measurement …

Abstract The financial market is a subset of assets market. Its efficiency is very important for economic development …, functioning as a screening institution for investments. The property sector is another group, comprising urban land. Urbanization … or lending rates. They should also be higher than the implied return for undeveloped urban land. If not, there is …

place) and territoriality in the course of waging sectarian violence. -- urbanization ; cities ; urban conflict ; Lebanon …

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 …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …

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 …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and …

under-invest in outcomes for their female children. Linking the gender composition of children in Indian households to their … ranges from 7-14% in urban and 3-7% in rural areas, respectively. Various heterogeneity analysis suggest that the reduction … in this paper provide a new first stage association between gender composition of children and sanitation behavior and …