Using a unique data on sub-Saharan Africa, we show that even though in absolute terms men pay more bribes, in relative … country specific regressions shows that for 65% of the countries gender differences when household needs are at stake … disappear. These results underscore the importance of household needs to the woman, and that the effect of gender on corruption …

mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual … negative effects on children were found. The study debunks some myths related to gender roles in African smallholder … agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with …

cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …