This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … members may affect girls' and young women’s education: relaxation of budget constraints, increase in household work, change in … 2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls' school attendance differs markedly by age. School attendance of young …

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 …

to female peers operates not only by reducing traditional gender perceptions but also by changing actual behaviour …This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan … nationally representative survey of 9th grade students and exploit the quasi-random variation in the proportion of female peers …

gender differences we find suggest that unequal treatment of girls within their households has a negative impact on their … education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey to … identify household and commune characteristics and emphasize how the effects of these characteristics vary by gender. The …

important contributing factors explaining the gender productivity gap are firm characteristics, such as firm size, age of the …

We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in …

micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relation to economic development. We use a unique … panel dataset of employees from Latin America's largest MFI to show that gender gaps favouring men for promotion exist … primarily in the sales division, while there is a significant gender wage gap in the administrative division. Among loan …

Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data … from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises … innovation when compared to male-owned enterprises. The endowments effect had a positive association with the gender innovation …