The share of female physicians has risen in OECD countries in recent decades, but we know little about the effects of … physician gender. We exploit quasi-random assignment of primary care providers (PCPs) to patients and estimate the causal effect …

section 1. Gender : current status -- section 2. Gender : some issues -- section 3. Policies towards gender empowerment … -- section 4. Gender and rural development -- section 5. Gender : select interventions for gender development …