theory predicts. Empirical evidencesuggests that social and political instability is a major reason for thedivergence between …

Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower … preferred by men - in an area with high HIV prevalence. We observe an increase in the likelihood that women have sex and find … strongest adoption of female condoms among women with lower bargaining power, who were previously having unprotected sex. …

A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable … portion of such incidents occurring in public spaces. Harmful social norms emphasizing men's power over women have been … against women during Holi. We analyze how perpetrators' and victims' gender norms drive violence against women. First, we find …

Xiaokai Yang's theory of economic specialization under increasing returns to scale is a formal development of the … fundamental Smith-Young theorem on the extent of the market and the social division of labor. In this theory specialization and …