Data and Code for: "Gendered Laws and Women in the Workforce"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University; Simeon Djankov, World Bank; Marie Hyland, World Bank

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Project Citation: 

Goldberg, Pinelopi K., Djankov, Simeon, and Hyland, Marie. Data and Code for: “Gendered Laws and Women in the Workforce.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-11-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E118224V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women’s economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank’s newly constructed “Women, Business and the Law” database, we document large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard to pay and treatment of parenthood. We find positive correlations between more equal laws pertaining to women in the workforce and more equal labor market outcomes, such as higher female labor force participation and a smaller wage gap between men and women.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Gender discrimination in laws
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J20 Demand and Supply of Labor: General
      K10 Basic Areas of Law: General (Constitutional Law)
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage 190 countries
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1970 – 2019
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 5/2009 – 9/2019
Universe:  View help for Universe Women across the world
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes None

Methodology

Response Rate:  View help for Response Rate The response rate among the contacted legal experts is between 80 and 85 percent each year.
Sampling:  View help for Sampling Each year the World Bank contacts international law associations and asks them to recommend top lawyers who practice family law, inheritance law, labor law, and property law in each of the 190 countries surveyed.  Subsequently, the World Bank mails questionnaires to the recommended lawyers. A total of 2,100 lawyers from private law firms and non-governmental organizations in 190 different countries provided answers to mailed questionnaires.
Data Source:  View help for Data Source
The World Bank's "Women, Business and the Law" database
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) mail questionnaire
Scales:  View help for Scales Verbal answers to questions are converted to indicators recorded on a 0-1 scale
Weights:  View help for Weights
No weights were used
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