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The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction...
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A growing body of rigorous research shows that financial services innovations can have important positive impacts on wellbeing, but also that many do not. We first describe the latest evidence on what works in financial inclusion. Second, we summarize research on key financial market failures...
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significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …
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various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these … violence, and other forms of difference in gender norms. Most of the research illustrates that differences in cultural norms … regarding gender roles emerge in response to specific historical situations, but tend to persist even after the historical …
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This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …
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empirical strategy exploits differences in market structure across industries to identify the impact of trade on the gender wage … from increased trade should lead to a reduction in the gender wage gap. We compare the change in the residual gender wage … changes in the gender wage gap that are unrelated to competitive pressures. We find that increased competition through trade …
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This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably matched pairs of men and women applied for jobs as waiters and waitresses at 65 restaurants in Philadelphia. The 130 applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The...
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behavior of an unchanging median voter whose gender preferences were not satisfied by the suppliers of candidates for office …
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analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …
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This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …
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