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Protectionism and Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (English)

How do tariffs impact gender inequality? Using harmonized household survey and tariff data from 54 low- and middle-income countries, this paper shows that protectionism has an anti-female bias. On average, tariffs repress the real incomes of female headed households by 0.6 percentage points relative to that of male headed ones. Female headed households bear the brunt of tariffs because they derive a smaller share of their income from and spend a larger...
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Artuc,Erhan; Depetris Chauvin,Nicolas M.; Porto,Guido; Rijkers,Bob.

Protectionism and Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (English). Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP)|Paper is funded by the Strategic Research Program (SRP)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9750 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/531661629221891813

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