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 …

altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …

find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much … married women workers less able to change their industry of employment than other workers. We find some support for an …-wage married women workers in their industry drop out of the labor market in response to their industry's loss of tariff. However …

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 …

Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force …. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … to change asymmetrically for women versus men …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …

incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …

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 …