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Gendered Laws, Informal Origins, and Subsequent Performance ...
Firms in the informal sector underperform those in the formal sector in value added per employee, stability of incomes, and vulnerability to external shocks. But does legal discrimination affect the c...
Tackling Legal Impediments to Women’s Economic Empowerment (...
Can legal reforms promote shifts in perceptions of women in the economy? Drawing on case studies of six countries (Iceland, Peru, Rwanda, The Philippines, Tunisia, and the United States), this paper c...
Shifting Discriminatory Gender Norms Affecting Women in the ...
There is no doubt that the preponderance of social media offers an attractive opportunity to study and change social norms about women’s work, particularly among young voracious consumers. The study f...
Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: Experimental Evide...
This paper provides new evidence on the impact of a one-time cash transfer during a severe global downturn. In this research, an unconditional cash transfer was delivered via mobile money to vulnerabl...
Claudia Goldin on Family Economics (2023)
Winner of 2023 Nobel Prize in economics and a pioneer of gender economics discusses her intellectual journey. This is a part of the IMF’s series on extraordinary women in economics. Listen here
How Shea Nut Collectives are Empowering African Women (2023)
In the last 23 years shea exports have increased about 600%, which should be good news for collectors who are mostly rural women. However, women are oftentimes squeezed out by middle men. This podcast...
A Book Review of “Equality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws an...
What will it take to close gender gaps worldwide? The authors of this essential analysis of women’s economic equality tackle this question. The book documents discrimination at work, sexual harassment...
Why Strengthening Women’s Land Rights in Conflict-affected C...
Land rights are complicated, especially in fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) affected situations. This blog highlights how women’s land rights can contribute to economic and social stability, fo...
Q&A: Women’s Assets, Shocks and Lasting Empowerment (2023)
In this interview, Agnes Quisumbing, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, talks about how shocks affect women’s assets and ways that development programming ca...
Integrating Gender in Land Projects: A Toolkit (2022)
This Toolkit offers a blueprint for building strategies and adopting good practices to address the legal, social, and structural barriers that hinder women from exercising their land rights. Written f...
Women's Legal Rights and Gender Gaps in Property Ownership i...
Drawing on data from Demographic and Health Surveys across 41 low-income countries, this paper finds that husbands are, on average, 2.7 times more likely than wives to own property solely and 1.4 time...
Housing Ownership Gender Differences in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2...
This paper provides surprising evidence on gender gaps in urban housing ownership. About 1,300 households in a low-income area of Dhaka were randomly selected, with male and female respondents (who we...