about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa … particular implications for women's time use. In this paper, we document that current patterns of female time use in home …

community HIV prevalence. We show that HIV-infected women have significantly lower fertility. In contrast to Young (2005 …), however, we find that local community HIV prevalence has no significant effect on non-infected women's fertility …

Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … conditions change. Norms about marriage patterns, living arrangements and the productive role of women are associated with … contemporary violence. Second, women's contemporary economic role affects violence in a complex way which is itself related to …

through women, as in matrilineal kinship systems, or men, as in patrilineal kinship systems. Anthropologists hypothesized that … matrilineal kinship systems benefit women because they have greater support from their kin and husbands have less authority over … OLS and a geographic regression discontinuity design along the matrilineal belt in Africa. Using over 50 DHS survey …

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 …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

women's spending on beauty-enhancing goods and services. We find that beauty raises women's earnings (and to a lesser extent …

I show that the trend towards single households among older nonmarried women, the majority of whom were widows, has … the fraction of older nonmarried women living with relatives from 1950 to 1990 can be attributed to rising Social Security …