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Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India’s informal sector firmsHow does informal economic activity respond to increased financial inclusion? Does it become more entrepreneurial?...
Entrepreneurship Financial constraints GenderWorking Paper
Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility?: Evidence from CameroonWe examine the intergenerational mobility of women relative to men, using paired mother-daughter and father-son data on occupation and education for Cameroon...
Occupational mobility Educational mobility Intergenerational MobilityWorking Paper
Income diversification and household welfare in Tanzania 2008–2013This paper uses three waves of Tanzanian National Panel Surveys (2008/09, 2010/11, and 2012/13) to construct a panel from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household welfare measured...
income diversification Labour income GenderJournal Article
Rental markets, gender, and land certificates: Evidence from VietnamPart of Journal Special Issue Understanding agricultural development and change
land use certificates land rental markets GenderBlog
Meet the women behind the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development programme
Globally, women are under-represented in the field of economics. Only a third of all academic research staff in the field of economics in Europe are women. In the US the share is even lower ...
Gender Women's empowerment women's workBlog
How a data revolution in South Africa can help address gender inequalityIn 2016, we joined a project in South Africa working to make tax data available for research purposes...
Administrative data Employment GenderWorking Paper
Social mobility in China: A case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global SouthThis study analyses intergenerational class mobility in China as a case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South...
Social mobility Gender log-linear modelsPolicy Brief
Unequal growth in Mozambique and the regionThere is an increasing interest in the analysis of economic inequalities in least developed countries...
Poverty Growth Unequal growthWorking Paper
Gender and social mobility: Exploring gender attitudes and women’s labour force participationWomen have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility...
Gender gender attitudes NormsIn the media
UNU-WIDER findings on the influence of female elected officials on economic performance continues to make headlinesReporting on UNU-WIDER research published in the working paper ‘ Women legislators and economic performance ’, news outlets The Times of India , The Quint , The Diplomat , and more, have published articles discussing the impact of women...
Gender Politics Economic growthJournal Article
Gender Inequality in Employment in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
Gender Employment EducationJournal Special Issue
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Moving out of identity silos and into intersectionality: The example of gender identity
Women are undoubtedly doing better today than they were even 40-50 years ago. The gender gap has shrunk in many areas, including educational attainment, health, and employment and wages...
Gender Caste EqualityWorking Paper
Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax dataThis paper has three primary objectives...
Administrative data Employment GenderJournal Article
The Impact of School Feeding Programmes on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Burkina FasoFood for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s...
Enrolment School attendance GenderWorking Paper
Managerial attributes and enterprise access to formal credit in MyanmarUsing data from a new survey of small and medium-sized enterprises in Myanmar, we analyse enterprise demand for formal credit and the extent to which they are constrained in the formal credit market...
formal credit Gender Personality traits