We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women …'s subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women … controls as well as assess the sensitivity of our results to alternative estimation methods. We find that women who face any …

findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …

underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County … driven by Black women. Rather than comorbidity or aging, the Black female bias is associated with poverty and channeled by …

significant and negative effect on women’s participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to …

builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … that marriage by the median age reduces the probability of working for women by 47 percent in Jordan, 33 percent in Tunisia … and 16 percent in Egypt. Much of the effect is due to a reduction in the probability of private wage work, which is …

in a sense that males attach more value to attractiveness and women attach more value to earnings potential. We examine …

with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In … superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. …