, and Southeast Asia, Middle East & North Africa, and Latin America), the effect of women's employment on reported domestic … violence is estimated. An instrumental Variables technique is used to correct for the potential endogeneity of women …, these results turn out to be the opposite, which suggests that women's employment status has a negative influence on …

, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and … middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …

gender inequality understood as long-lasting norms, values and codes of conduct that shape gender roles, and presents …-country level with linear regressions using the newly created Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its subindices as … development, one has to consider social institutions related to gender inequality to better account for differences in development …

, and persistent gender norms and values. We find that differences in levels are heavily affected by long …-standing differences in economic structure that circumscribe women's economic opportunities. Shocks can bring about drastic changes with … the experience of socialism being the most important shock to women's labor force participation. Trends are heavily …