We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation. …'s subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women …

differences for education between men and women, documenting a significantly larger premium for women. This sharp distinction is … causal as demonstrated by analysis of the compulsory schooling law. Recent bans on women's education and employment are … projected to have significant negative impacts on women's future schooling, wage growth, and national income growth. …

We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their …

the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the …

In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit … heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine personality traits have a 4.3 percentage points greater likelihood of gaining …, women with masculine personality traits have an occupational access advantage, as compared to those exhibiting feminine …

health are studied in several disciplines, including a substantial research programme in psychology. Summary trends in Europe …

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …

emigration, and provinces with higher public spending on health. Finally, we estimate economic cost of cold and heat waves using …