for thinking about gender from an economic perspective. Addresses economic issues for women throughout the world, in both … confronting women throughout the world--including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining …Gender matters in economics - for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved …

Consistent tests of stochastic dominance efficiency are used to assess the Global Gender Gap Index which is a composite … gender gap measure comprising 4 equally weighted dimensions - economic participation & opportunity, educational attainment … us to uncover which dimensions have contributed most to closing the gender gap and which ones are still in need of …

On the current pace of reforms, global gender gaps are estimated to close, using deterministic (linear or log …-linear) trends, over the next three centuries. This means that many women will likely not be able to fully use their abilities and … efforts, gender gaps may in fact never close. Using Markov chains, a common approach in macroeconomics, this paper analyzes …