fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using …

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. …

whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use … significantly reduced university attendance by women relative to men. Additionally, we find that the policy had a negative impact on …

for social ranking when the ranker is a women, and women are not affected by the ranker's gender. With a male ranker …