relationship between gender and poverty. These countries were chosen as they have, under the equal-sharing assumption, very … different gender distributions of poverty. … resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …

seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households … in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and document a set of striking facts. The incentive induces 22% of …

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those …

There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female …

for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across … birth cohorts. Our approach differs from the existing literature, which exploits variation in gender composition at a given … generally yields spurious gender peer effects when there is grade retention. The birth cohort approach applied to primary …