prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … timing in women's spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …

associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3 ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men … should work outside and women should look after the family". As we conduct a battery of sensitivity analyses and placebo …

networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for … whom peer support may overcome intrahousehold constraints. Enabling women to jointly visit a clinic with other women not …. Moreover, this intervention was more effective in improving reproductive autonomy of women who faced greater intrahousehold …

This paper reports results from a survey experiment comparing the effect of (the same) opinions expressed by male …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the …

Policies that increase women's representation often intend to provide women with influence over processes and decisions … women's influence in two field experiments. Our first study finds that male-majority teams accord disproportionately less … influence to women and are less likely to choose women to represent the team externally. We then replicate this finding in a new …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

Using longitudinal data from the 2014-2018 China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of internet use (IU …) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced …

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It … among women by nativity, urbanization, and region of the country. While foreign-born and illiterate women were more likely … greater the slave-intensity of the county, the less likely were free women to report having an occupation, particularly as …

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is … due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census … takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force participation rate for free women in 1860 and compares it with the …