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 …

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

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 …

illicit drugs among pregnant women. The prevalence of prenatal drug use based on post partum interviews was much lower than …

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

Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with … to relax human capital constraints for women by offering vocational, business and life skills training in 30 villages in … rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …

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 …

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

-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …, particularly for women. …