The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the … history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

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 … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

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 privileged position in a patriarchal world whereas, as fathers, they were hurt by a system that afforded few rights to …

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with … Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages … status quo). Women in a random subset of villages were also trained on account use. In the short run, relative to women just …

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …

appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical …

This paper addresses the question of whether societies that afford economic opportunity to women offer other … opportunities as well. The analysis in this paper shows that the performance of a country's women in international athletic … relationship across countries between a high ratio of the labor force participation rate of women to the labor force participation …

Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … equality between men and women …