of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa … women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess …

paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …

a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as …

) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has …

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using …

Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment …