paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each country's population whose native language is a gender language. At the … demonstrates that the results are not driven by spurious correlations within language families. Gender languages appear to reduce …Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes all -- nouns to …

comparability, the paper uses the same measure of receptive language ability for all five countries. It finds important differences …

This paper examines gender gaps in cognitive and non-cognitive skills among a sample of more than 10,000 children … between the ages of 6 and 9 in rural Indonesia. In terms of cognitive skills, the analysis finds evidence of gender gaps … favoring girls at each age in test scores of language (0.158-0.252 standard deviations) and mathematics (0.155-0.243 standard …

Empowering women to engage in productive employment is not only critical to achieving gender equality but also critical … for economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper studies the pattern of female activity and gender segmentation in … manufacturing than in services, segmentation based on gender is pervasive in both sectors. Theory, dating back to Gary Becker …

Several economies have laws that treat women differently from men. This study explores the degree of such legal gender … disparities across 167 economies around the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure of legal gender disparities … to evaluate how countries perform. The average number of overall legal gender disparities across 167 economies is 17 …