yields increased impulsiveness while inducing positive affect in women or affect (positive or negative) in men yields little … manipulation to identify the role of positive and negative mood/affect in intertemporal choice. Our results demonstrate that, while … differences in the discount rates of men and women, we find gender differences in the character of hyperbolic discounting in which …

, affect can distort effort decisions relative to a fully cognitive benchmark, in a way that is consistent with evidence on …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent … country studies find export led growth in middle and low income countries is associated with improvements in women … suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender …

this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences … and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More …