Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

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 …

Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of knowledge or, rather, a … lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to disproportionately respond "do not know" to questions …-third of the financial literacy gender gap can be explained by women's lower confidence levels. Both financial knowledge and …