composition, in part because only aggregate voting data was available. We exploit the existence of separate counts for women and … strategic voting and men previously represented in part women's vote due to negotiation within the household. We show evidence …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences. We find that both women and men equally value physical …

countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total … women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market … wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests using U.S. and …

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …