We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …. We also find some evidence of an increase in women's labor supply following WPS opening, consistent with women feeling …

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in …

Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates … for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women as leaders. In this study, we investigate whether and how adding …

The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by … contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative … econometric results. We show that women are heavily indebted, first and foremost to informal sources, alongside microcredit. While …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find that women legislators are less likely to be criminal and …

. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal …

While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre … partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative …