women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …

the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … proportion of ever married women with eight years of schooling lowered number of pregnancies per woman by 0.13 and number of … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

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 …/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden …

We study the effects of government-subsidized childcare on women's careers and firm outcomes using linked tax filing … women's career progression and the allocation of human capital in the labor market …

During the first half of the twentieth century, many US states enacted laws restricting women's labor market … with male sole earners who compete with women for jobs. We show that the theory's predictions for when protective …

. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … women in lowers ranks …