In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them…
This paper has been archived. Please see RWP12-054 for the latest revised version. Original abstract: Data on 2,288 married women from the…
If the Women’s Reservation Bill becomes law, then 181 out of 543 national legislators and 1370 out the 4109 state legislators will be women…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
We estimate the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Our method compares successful and unsuccessful applicants…
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India,
we ran an exam competition through…
The BRIGHT program was designed to improve the educational outcomes of children in Burkina Faso.1 It focused on girls in particular and was…