in developing economies can signal their wealth, and thereby increase their social status, by withdrawing their women … status. The steep increase in female education in recent decades could paradoxically have increased FLFNP in India even …

expanding a business, conditional on entry, are also substantially higher for women. However, there is one area in which female … composition of female employment. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women …

predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed light on labor supply and time use decisions of women. We observe decreased …

The more education, the less unemployment of women; this relationship is as strong as it is in the male labor force … women. This is because levels of educational differences in on-the-job (in-house) training are small among women, while … duration of unemployment are negligible among women, though they are observable, if small, among men. Recent growth in women …

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … affecting their labor supply and wages in the United States. We find, as expected, that women who migrate from countries with … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on …

In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence …

people reported mostly donating the grant or using it to help family or friends as reported saving it (10-18 percent), with …

The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their … wives' incentives but that women are not responsive to their husbands' incentives and present evidence to suggest that this …