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This paper documents novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Malawi.
Cognitive Skills --- Gender --- Gender and Development --- Gender and Social Development --- Gender and Social Policy --- Gender Innovation Lab --- Gender Policy --- Marriage Market --- Socioeconomic Skills
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This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse for emotional violence. The results show the conceptual and analytical value of intrahousehold contention over decision making and expand the breadth of evidence on the importance of women's power for economic development.
Africa Gender Policy --- Gender --- Gender and Development --- Gender and Social Development --- Gender Innovation Lab --- Health --- Household Wellbeing --- Inequality --- Living Standards --- Poverty Reduction --- Power --- Women's Empowerment
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Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions of women-led firms. This paper examines a potential driver of these disparities: gender-biased loan officers. Officer bias is measured through a novel loan application experiment conducted with 77 loan officers in Turkish banks. The analysis finds that 35 percent of the loan officers are biased against female applicants, with women receiving loan amounts USD14,000 lower on average compared with men. Experience in the banking sector can attenuate this bias, with each year of experience reducing gender biased loan allocations by 6 percent. The results suggest that loan officers may use gender bias as a heuristic device given limited information and risk aversion. Helping newly recruited and lesser experienced loan officers to better discern loan application quality may thus improve financing of business loans to women and reduce gender gaps in entrepreneurship.
Access to Finance --- Africa Gender Policy --- Banking --- Credit --- Entrepreneurship --- Female Entrepreneurs --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Literacy --- Gender --- Gender and Development --- Gender and Economic Policy --- Gender Bias --- Gender Gap --- Gender Innovation Lab --- Inequality --- Law and Development --- Law and Gender --- Small and Medium Enterprises --- SME Finance
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