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

expanding a business, conditional on entry, are also substantially higher for women. However, there is one area in which female … composition of female employment. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women …

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 …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … modest on average but larger for married women than for unmarried women and for those working in COVID-impacted industries …

-skilled women, are disproportionately represented in the household services sector, a global phenomenon that is seen to some extent …, immigrant workers allow high-skilled native women to reduce their unpaid household production and increase their participation … supply of high-skilled native women, has helped narrow the gender earnings gap in high-paying powered occupations, and that …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed light on labor supply and time use decisions of women. We observe decreased …