status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as …This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin …-Paredes, 2018a; Juárez & Gayet, 2014). This combination of stability and change has had profound transformations in the family …

field that gender-related credit and VC gaps exist in Europe. It also collects some of the most prominent empirical findings … with respect to the gender imbalance in the European credit and VC markets during the last decade. This suggests an … important role for gender-smart policy interventions at EU-level through the use of both equity and debt financing instruments. …

municipalities with women councilors devote more resources to social investments. In particular, women politicians prioritize …

This paper collects an original database of publicly listed companies to determine prevailing gender ratios among board … members and executives in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC). Women are as under-represented in LAC as in the United … States, but much less so in the Caribbean. It is then estimated whether companies with women board members are more likely to …

data from mixed-gender mayoral races in Brazil. We rely on a Regression Discontinuity design that compares municipalities … where women narrowly won the election with those where men narrowly won. This strategy allows us to identify the causal …