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 …

instance on the relative progress made by women vs. men – that are consistent with social preferences upon desirable patterns … women. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …

avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade …-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-19, we use regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions … announcements, we measure the differential time variation in work mobility between high and low-poverty regions. We find that the …

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 … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

wage distribution, for men and women separately. We account for unobserved heterogeneity by using fixed effects estimations … returns are not fundamentally different in the public sector. Firstly, public wage 'premia' (for women) or 'penalties' (for …

the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical …

Women are disproportionately in low paid work compared to men so, in the absence of rationing effects on their … employment, they should benefit the most from minimum wage policies. This study examines the change in the gender wage gap around … decomposition of the change in the gender differences in wage distributions around the date of introduction of minimum wages. We …