, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to … reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key human capital decisions, women in modern cohorts underestimate the … employment effects of motherhood in U.K. and U.S. data. We then provide evidence that women do not anticipate these effects. Upon …

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 entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century … effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers … quantitative model that aims to capture their impact. Our results suggests that these advances, by enabling women to reconcile work …

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 …

This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving … expansions reduced the proportion of pregnant women who were uninsured by approximately 10 percent, although this decrease in …

Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) on the incidence of single motherhood and headship for young women. A contribution of the …

Millions of women continue to die during and soon after childbirth, even where the knowledge and resources to avoid … this are available. We posit that raising the share of women in parliament can trigger action. Leveraging the timing of … of young women of about 0.5 years. The results are robust to numerous robustness checks. They suggest a new policy tool …

care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ … targeted at less-skilled women, we present a descriptive analysis of current utilization and child care costs. We emphasize … differences across skill groups, showing that the least-skilled women both use less costly paid care and are more likely to use …

This study explores the effect of school reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic on married women's labor supply. We … associated with significant increases in employment and hours among married women with school-aged children, with no measurable …