The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries

By S. Jayachandran. 2015

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Networks, Technology, and Entrepreneurship: A Field Quasi-experiment among Women in Rural India (2017, neutral): “Women in South Asia, Middle East, and North Africa tend to have less access to formal financial institutions and savings mechanisms than men do (World Bank, 2015) and even find it more difficult to find employment (Jayachandran, 2014).”
'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments (2017, background): “A large literature, surveyed by Jayachandran (2015), studies the role of social norms in explaining gender inequality in developing countries. behave similarly in private.”
The Changing Nature of Work (2018, background): “Washington, DC: World Bank 292 La Porta, Rafael, and Andrei Shleifer. 2014. “Informality and Development.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 28(3): 109– 26. 293 Banerjee, Abhijit V., & Duflo, Esther, 2011. Poor economics: A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. New York: Public Affai”
Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia (2020, neutral): “2011; Alesina, Giuliano, and Nunn 2013; Baldiga 2014; Coffman 2014; Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan 2015; Jayachandran 2015; Field et al.”
Education and gender role attitudes (2020, background): “Moreover, a large literature, surveyed by Jayachandran (2015), studies the role of social norms about gender roles in explaining gender inequality in developing countries.”
Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries (2020, background): “Two other reasons for the development-driven rise in female employment are that fertility rates decline and household chores become less labor-intensive (Jayachandran 2015).”