Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital investment …

developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …

increase social compensation, with women more likely than men. Furthermore, offering subjects some discretion in choosing their …