the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …

distribution of illiteracy and infant mortality. Across provinces and within provinces, between rural and urban areas and within …

estimates with exceptional geographic and temporal coverage, and demonstrate a robust correlation of literacy and numeracy …

Differences in gender-based labour market discrimination across countries imply that migration may affect husbands and …

This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives … income drag on family income, gender discrimination allows the male to benefit from greater bargaining power. In a model with … endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development …

-long transformation of Kampala involving a gender Kuznets curve. Men rapidly acquired literacy and quickly found their way into white … from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and …-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labour market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …

of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly …