approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education … educational spending; (ii) this bargaining power is associated positively (negatively) with education spending in urban (rural …

We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect …. Second, male dictators appropriate a greater share of the pie than females and more is taken from known gender (male …

related to preference for favourable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences … along with selected personality traits are the most relevant explanations for gender differences in willingness to compete …

We use a recent first-hand linked employer-employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …