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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behaviour? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can … treatment that involves reminding subjects of their gender. We found that, without priming, there were no statistically … different gender differences in the solidarity game. With priming, however, there was an increased willingness in women to …
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We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through … variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of … mechanisms that induce gender inequality in resource access. …
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-scale development project when playing with other women than in mixed-gender groups, where they contributed at about the same levels as …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower …
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This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female … gender and child outcome matter. …
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In order to correct for the initial gender blindness of the Paris Declaration and related aid modalities as general and … sector budget support, it has been proposed to integrate a gender dimension into budget support entry points. This paper … studies the effectiveness of (joint) gender working groups and the integration of sex-disaggregated indicators and targets in …
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This paper examines peer effects on students' gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan … leads to more progressive gender norms. Furthermore, these effects in gender perceptions are driven mostly by male students … to female peers operates not only by reducing traditional gender perceptions but also by changing actual behaviour …
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Reducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and … Vietnamese men to reflect about gender equality can reduce their gender bias. We randomly selected two groups of husbands and … requested one group to make comments on gender-related laws and another group to write stories about gender equality. We find …
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