household work. These gender inequalities are accompanied by weaker political participation among women. While the historical … higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or … property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion …, we distinguish between four types of women's rights--economic, political, labor, and body--and document their evolution …

their own daughters and because an expansion of women's rights increases educational investments in children. We show that …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 …

We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … industry structure. For a given change in the exposure to automation across commuting zones, women were more likely than men to …

We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider …---we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. These dynamics have important implications for women's well-being as well … household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are …

/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden … earning power and education across genders, married women often found themselves in an economically vulnerable position, and … women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage …

-skilled women, are disproportionately represented in the household services sector, a global phenomenon that is seen to some extent …, immigrant workers allow high-skilled native women to reduce their unpaid household production and increase their participation … these advances have not come at the cost of native women investing less time in their children or having lower birth rates …

. Married and divorced women with children, over whom husbands and ex-husbands have leverage, actually exit the labor force and …Billions of women still face legal barriers to economic inclusion, yet it is unclear whether lifting these barriers is … - the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training …

children. Does this imply that targeting transfers to women promotes economic development? In this paper, we develop a … noncooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they … may spend more on children, even when women and men have the same preferences. However, this does not necessarily mean …

studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … studies that focus on the United States to understand the effects of migration from poor to rich countries, our context is …