, even at a short network distances, researchers (especially men) are less likely to adopt women's ideas. Ideas from …

across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on …

Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it … declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …; and study the period from 1940 to 2006. In contrast to most existing work, we find that college graduate women are indeed …

This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving … expansions reduced the proportion of pregnant women who were uninsured by approximately 10 percent, although this decrease in …

Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women … the effects of welfare reform on adult women's educational acquisition. We first estimate effects of welfare reform on … women. We conduct numerous specification checks and explore the mediating role of work. We find robust and convincing …

reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …

women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with the added Voting and Registration Supplement for the years 1990 … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …

of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that …

stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …