Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
The notion of a “resource curse” has been most commonly applied in explaining why many countries apparently blessed with abundant reserves…
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
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…
This paper examines the impact of descriptive representation in comparative perspective. The goals are to establish (1) whether descriptive…
We estimate the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Our method compares successful and unsuccessful applicants…