In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the … woman in the MENA countries, which is relevant also for other countries …

This paper examines the gender gaps in the use of higher-order financial services such as investment and insurance … substantial part of the gender differentials in the use of financial services can be attributed to unobserved characteristics …

important effect in South Africa. Much of these gender differentials is related to differences in gendered behaviour, yet … generalizations on how gender relates to risk aversion is not supported. Rather non-financial approaches may explain how social … relations propel women's decision to prioritise the use of financial services as a result of ascribed gender and social roles …

particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender obesity gaps on average exceed 10 percentage … of relevant controls, gender obesity gaps are only associated to measures of female empowerment in the MENA region but … national parliament) predicts a 0.2 (0.09) percentage point decrease in gender gaps in obesity in the MENA region …

We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey …

This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division … and reunification, I compare child penalties of East Germans who were socialised in a more gender egalitarian culture to … West Germans socialised in a gender-traditional culture. Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on …

The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and …

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …

Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …

Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full …