that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … improved the relative status of women relative to both men before and after the transition to social feminism. Twentieth … century women's BMIs were higher than 19th century women relative to men with the rise of social feminism. The primary source …

choices using the example of child care – a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …

We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …

This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's sexuality, such as a particularly … invasive form of female genital cutting, restrictions on women's freedom of mobility, and norms about their sexual behavior … often extended periods of male absence from the settlement, implying larger payoffs to imposing restrictions on women …

larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …

Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while …: ideologically moderate women are more favorable to redistribution than moderate men, and this effect is even stronger among right …