We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …. We also find some evidence of an increase in women’s labor supply following WPS opening, consistent with women feeling …

We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India …-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women's employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …

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 …

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 …

How do electoral rules affect the representation of women? We collect panel data on the universe of Italian politicians … electoral rules favour the election of women. We propose a new channel through which this result is obtained, related to the … different nature of political competition in the two electoral systems: under proportional rules, parties place women less …

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …. Moreover, we find that women tend more towards giving half the endowment while men tend more towards "all or nothing." The …

We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of … misreporting accounts for the discontinuity in the distribution of women's relative incomes just below the point where a woman …

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 …