Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India, Rohini Pande, May…
“Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani shows…
Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his…
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…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences,
yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual…
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India,
we ran an exam competition through…
For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of…