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    Gendered Laws : Policy Research Working Paper 9080
    (World Bank, 2019-12) Hyland, Marie; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou
    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 extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard to equal pay and treatment of parenthood. The paper finds positive associations between improvements in the law and several labor market outcomes, and establishes a small, but over time increasing, causal impact of more equal laws on higher female labor force participation.
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    Gendered Laws and Women in the Workforce
    (World Bank, 2020-12) Hyland, Marie; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Koujianou
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    Reform chatter and democracy : policy research working paper 9319
    (World Bank, 2020-07) Arezki, Rabah; Djankov, Simeon; Nguyen, Ha; Yotzov, Ivan
    This paper explores the dynamics of media chatter about economic reforms using text analysis from about a billion newspaper articles in 28 languages. The paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases during economic downturns. This increase is more significant in democracies. Using instrumental variable techniques, the analysis finds the relationship to be causal. The paper also documents that reform chatter is followed by actual reforms, suggesting that democracies benefit from a “self-correcting” mechanism stemming from changing popular attitudes toward reform.