family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …

, we randomized access to non-interest-bearing bank accounts among two types of self-employed individuals in rural Kenya …: market vendors (who are mostly women) and men working as bicycle-taxi drivers. Despite large withdrawal fees, a substantial … share of market women used the accounts, were able to save more, and increased their productive investment and private …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect … days with bad mental health and more restless sleep. Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives such as … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …

particular implications for women's time use. In this paper, we document that current patterns of female time use in home … about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa …