, 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 …

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days … Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women presented longer standard durations (i.e., purely attached to physiological …, we found that women were more inefficient at lower levels of income, whereas in case of men, this occurred at higher …

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 … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …

This paper investigates whether there is co-movement in subjective wellbeing (swb) gender gaps and objective wellbeing … (owb) gender gaps over time and whether swb gender gaps are caused by gender differences in endowments or by the different … ways men and women value the pre-mentioned. This is important, as global goals and national policy focus on the improvement …

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. …

We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across …

The paper examines the short-term implications of urbanization on women empowerment in India. In theory, urbanization … can affect women either positively or negatively. Women in urban areas, compared to their rural counterparts, are thought … women's empowerment remain widespread in urban environments. We measure urbanization using satellite-based nighttime light …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … in perpetuating disproportionate preference for boys. Women who married before turning 18 not only state a greater desire … with 7.7 - 12.5% higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is …