This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether … increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer … resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing the bargaining power of women reduces pro-boy discrimination. We …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

men and women spend similar amounts of time in total work. When considering the social norms that explain gender … important to know how men and women from these four countries distribute their time in total work, in order to understand why …

provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second …

This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using … differences in how men and women who have done some child caregiving on the previous day feel when engaged in a set of common … daily activities. We find that both men and women enjoy their time in child caregiving, men as much, or even more so, than …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …