Can technology and operations enable the world to achieve various United Nation
Sustainable Development Goals? I provide my own perspective on this question by focusing …

A large share of the workforce throughout the developing world is self-employed, and this
proportion has increased in recent decades. Assessments of this development vary, with pull …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic literature review of available
research evidence on marginal participation of women in ICT-related jobs (ICT–information …

Although female students' overall performance in mathematics is on a par with the
performance of male students, female students tend to report lower levels of mathematics …

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have a long history of striving
for gender equality, especially in the public sphere. Not only was this an important goal …

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–
2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample …

While it is commonly assumed that fertility decreases female labor supply, I show
theoretically that fertility can increase female labor supply if returns to financial inputs in …

In this paper, we examine the relationship between life satisfaction and empowerment in
rural Bangladesh. We analyse this relationship across region, religion, gender and income …

Gender stereotypes, the assumptions concerning appropriate social roles for men and
women, permeate the labor market. Analyzing information from over 2.5 million job …

The aim of this paper is to compare estimates of the adjusted wage gap from different
methods and sets of conditioning variables. We apply available parametric and non …