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2023, Working Group Publication: "Women play diverse and critical roles in the economies of both developing and developed nations. Yet, they often remain severely constrained from realizing their full personal and economic potential as a result of insufficient access to formal financial services, work, and education, disempowering social norms, and gender-biased laws and institutions. Research among economists that describes these various constraints and evaluates interventions to remove them is often siloed in different subfields of economics. This working group, which builds on the activities of the Study Group on Gender and the Economy that was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provides a venue for explicitly anchoring research discussions on these topics. It brings together researchers from different fields of economics who are working on these topics to share and discuss current research findings."