across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

and women to become board nominees, and that it did not lead to new female board nominees being of lower quality than male …

women's issues, as measured by score in the "Congressional Record on Choice" issued by NARAL Pro-Choice America. In the …

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 …

The question of the effects of race and sex discrimination laws on relative economic outcomes for blacks and women has … discrimination/equal pay laws reduced the relative employment of both black women and white women …

identification of causal effects is particularly challenging in this literature because women enter pregnancy with varying states of …

Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … that the program empowered women in various dimensions, including higher labor force participation and employment, higher …