setting. Women in British territories benefited from a universal education system and gained opportunities for paid employment …Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous …

mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers. …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …

education of mothers increases the probability of completing the full course of DPT and Hepatitis B vaccinations for their … children. Furthermore, education increases the age of first marriage and birth, changes women's and their spouse's labour …We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law …

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …

imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant …Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers …, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be at the top of their companies' pay ranking or in leadership … and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

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 … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women’s awareness … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women …