Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...

Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case by...

Der demographische Wandel wird die Anzahl und den Anteil älterer Menschen erhöhen. Dies wird sich auch auf die Wohnungsmärkte auswirken, denn Seniorinnen und Senioren stellen besondere Ansprüche an die altersgerechte Ausstattung ihrer Wohnung und ihres Wohnumfelds. Die Wohnsituation im Alter...

Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings...