The marketisation hypothesis states that growth in services sector reduces gender inequality. In recent years, the African service sector has grown considerably, yet we still observe relatively high gender inequality on the continent. Using a new dataset on gender inequality and panel data...

Despite widespread anecdotal evidence that lower trade barriers increase international trade, there is little firm quantitative evidence of the ‘trade-cost elasticity’ of trade flows, one of the two key aggregate statistics that have recently been identified as sufficient to quantify the...