the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These … underinvesting in initiatives to empower women. …

evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

children. Furthermore, education increases the age of first marriage and birth, changes women's and their spouse's labour … market status, and significantly affects women's attitude towards spousal violence against women and gender discrimination in … a manner that empowers women. …

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

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 …

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and …, preventing women from actually moving abroad. …