women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …

Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect … women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … capabilities across a range of dimensions are then developed for some 6000 women and used to estimate a number of propensity score …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …

, and non-graduates. Our findings reveal that while on average, graduate women have fewer children than non-graduates, this … difference is driven by FiF graduates. FiF women tend to have fewer children than both non-FiF graduates and non-graduates, who … extensive margin: FiF women are more likely to remain childless, but those who become mothers have an equal average number of …

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point … where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper …

schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative …

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries …