countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in …

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 …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

among pregnant women. Second, in line with clinical literature suggesting that both e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes …

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 …

health of low income families. A large body of literature evaluates the extent to which the Supplemental Program for Women …

effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …

. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school …

to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a `natural …