measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman's agency based on the interview, which we treat …

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 … setting. Women in British territories benefited from a universal education system and gained opportunities for paid employment …

What is the role of politics in shaping attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the compatibility …-time employment for women, including mothers. The West German system by contrast deterred women in general, and mothers in particular …

effect ranging from 0.12 to 0.18 years of education. This effect is due not only to the higher number of elected women, who …

children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non …-cooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they may … necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …