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 …

individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility affects women's behavior through three channels … age at first birth rises at an increasing rate with the productivity loss from children; and (iii) women of greater …

empirically that countries with comparative advantage in industries employing primarily women exhibit lower fertility. We use a …

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …

force in the developing world in the past two decades. The persistence of large informal sectors throughout the developing … world, including countries with high rates of growth, puts a premium on increasing our knowledge of how informal sector …