for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second …-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country-of-residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics …

The status of women in economics in the US has come increasingly under the spotlight. We exploit high quality … administrative data to paint the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK academic economics departments in research …-intensive universities. Our evidence indicates that, as in the US, women in economics are under-represented and are paid less than men. The …

larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …

extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study … within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the … publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and …

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …

This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification … strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this … among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia. We match experimental data with a unique policy intervention (CCT …

outcomes between men and women, and urban and rural residents using the Turkish Demographic and Health Surveys. This policy is … women. The policy equalizes the educational attainment of urban and rural children substantially. The urban-rural gap in the … completed years of schooling at age 17 falls by 0.5 years for men and by 0.7 to 0.8 years for women. However, there is no …