The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment … affected women's emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and labor market participation. The … staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss states allows us to exploit the variation in the age women experienced …

on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of …

working poor in acquiring education. From a field study conducted in Bangladesh, this paper provides invaluable insights for …

credit cooperatives. Similarly, declining bank lending rates contribute to their rise. Low asset sizes and land inequality … factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for … these determinants using the expansion of credit cooperatives in the 236 eastern counties of Prussia between 1852 and 1913 …

-aggregated level. Our idea builds on the well documented interdependence between institutions and exports, which allows estimating the … that neglect regional differences in the effectiveness of institutions. …

Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and … substantial amounting up to 30 to 40 percent of the direct effect of institutions. When the institution is determined endogenously … also find that institutions of either type enhance prosocial preferences and beliefs about others' prosocial behavior, even …

Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However …, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate … the demand for different levels of institutions that provide low to high levels of insurance and its subsequent impact on …