representative sample of women in the United States. Religious affiliation is found to have a significant impact on years of …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK …), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control … because women become more likely to be employed-supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …

This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in …

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the … biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under …-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk averse than men in some settings; and, most importantly, women …

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal …