women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for … each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This effect is sizeable given a mean level of exposure of 11 years and … infrastructure do not appear to be a potential mechanism for the effect to occur; the strongest evidence is that local women leaders …

Focusing on intra-household allocation, we investigate the effects of coffee market liberalisation in Uganda. As coffee …

investment grant, in addition to the basic conditional cash transfer benefits, both targeted at women, show an increased …

(english) We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …

We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …

We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our … findings are consistent with situations where women working at home would essentially feel negatively the burden of their own …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …