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 …

in women's status. We find significant increases in reported autonomy, decreases in the reported acceptability of beating … and other countries attempt to decrease bias against women …

in developing economies can signal their wealth, and thereby increase their social status, by withdrawing their women …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men … the ages of 5 and 25. Increased longevity of women, therefore, occurred as the burden of infectious disease fell for all …. Our explanation does not tell us why women live longer than men, but it does help understand the timing of the increase …

women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … women, especially nonpatentees, were significantly more likely than men to be associated with innovations in consumer final … products or work outside the home pursued such improvements to benefit their families. The patterns suggest that framing women …

an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women and women with children, this effect is … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable … enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of …

The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved … the first quantitative estimates of the extent of White women's involvement in antebellum slave transactions as owners of … record. Contrary to the narrative, we find that White women were quite frequently noted as owners of record in transactions …

-owned establishments employed more women and paid women higher wages, creating a potential cycle between increased female business … ownership and increased female labor market participation. Female-owned establishments concentrated in sub-industries like women … from other women in the Population Census …