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Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectorsOccupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide...
Gender Norms Labour market participationWorking Paper
Why do women co-operate more in women’s groups?We examine a public goods game in 83 communities in northern Liberia...
Public goods Gender Bayesian estimationWorking Paper
The effect of China’s One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughtersI first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second ...
Development Education Family planningWorking Paper
Gender and bargaining: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in rural UgandaWe study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities...
Artefactual field experiment Bargaining GenderWorking Paper
Gender, Islam, and lawThis paper considers arguments about Islam and women’s welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts...
Courts Ethnography GenderWorking Paper
Explaining gender differences in preference for self-employment among tertiary graduates in GhanaWe examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment...
Gender Ghana Graduate employabilityWorking Paper
Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups...
Social norms Harmful customs GenderWorking Paper
The differential impact of economic crisis on men and women, and its connection to intra-household bargainingThis paper discusses whether the Asian financial crisis affected men and women differently in Indonesia by estimating the effect of district consumption shock during the crisis on changes in men’s and women’s working status and assets...
Economic crisis Coping strategies GenderWorking Paper
Are caste categories misleading?: The relationship between gender and jati in three Indian statesThis paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India...
Autonomy Caste GenderWorking Paper
The donor footprint and gender gapsIn this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded household surveys with aid projects...
Foreign aid Gender Geocoded dataWorking Paper
Health consequences of sterilizationsOne-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong emphasis on ‘permanent’ contraceptive methods rather than temporary ones...
Development Fertility, Human GenderWorking Paper
Excess female mortality in AfricaRelative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically ‘missing’ worldwide...
Missing women Mortality GenderPolicy Brief
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Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling: The gender effect on microcredit renewalWhereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays attention to what happens over time once a person becomes a client...
Gender Microfinance InequalityWorking Paper
Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: The case of Viet NamThis paper examines the relationship between gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam...
Entrepreneurship Financial constraints GenderWorking Paper
The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: A gender perspectiveThis paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population...
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