Author: lattrell

Karra presents on measuring women’s labor force participation in East Africa

Mahesh Karra, a core faculty member of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center and an Assistant Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, attended the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting last week in Denver, Colorado to present his research on measuring women’s labor force […]

Economy in Command: Unpacking the Domestic Politics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Since the Chinese government announced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, China has solidified its status as a leader in the international community. Through its financing of development projects, mostly through South-South cooperation, BRI has attracted considerable scrutiny. This attention comes from both developed and developing countries and focuses on how the Chinese […]

Occupation and Gender

Occupational segregation, defined as the tendency of men and women to work in different professions, continues to be a strong feature in labor markets around the world and has been widely found to contribute to gender wage differences. This trend highlights the importance of understanding the causes and consequences of differences in employment distributions by […]