Endogenous gender roles: evidence from Africa's gold mining industry

Does industrial development change gender roles? This is the first paper to causally explore the effects of a continent-wide expansion of a modern industry on gender roles, captured by attitudes and behaviors. Identification relies on plausibly exogenous spatial-temporal variation in gold mining in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tolonen, A
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2019