The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on … the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …

heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings penalties of 9% in comparison to heterosexual men, and bisexual women faced … earnings penalties of 5% in comparison to heterosexual women. In the same regions, lesbian women experienced an earnings … premium of 7% in comparison to heterosexual women. Trans women, in the US and Europe, faced earnings penalties ranging from 4 …

The paper initiates a research agenda to study new developments of the effects of sexual orientation and gender … family support all along the sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Contrary to the earlier literature, the most … lesbian women have been found to receive lower wages in comparison to heterosexual women. We reveal the new evidence on this …

of the sexual and gender gap in political leadership ambition: women's and homosexuals' higher aversion to engage to …The underrepresentation of women and homosexuals in leadership positions has been well documented, but the grounds for … gender behavioral differences, stemming from differences in underlying psychological abilities and differences due to the …

, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …

state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …-in-law's presence consistently diminishes the daughter-in-law's engagement in paid work and increases both women's time spent on …

subnational divisiveness to gender divisiveness across countries. The global collection of massive data on human behavior provides …