The paper examines the impact of a rural roads construction program in India on women's outcomes. While spatial … integration can provide women with increased education and employment opportunities, the extent of benefits might be limited by … mobility restrictions faced by women and improves norms around domestic violence. However, the result are mixed with respect to …

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of …

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 … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage …

, 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 …

regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women … attendance differ by women's characteristics and are particularly strong for younger, more educated women. Furthermore, childcare …

school. We also find negative effects on women empowerment measures for the unexposed women. The results suggest that the JSY … led to increase in women empowerment and improved cognitive outcomes for children. …

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were … under direct British rule, compared to their counterparts, are better off in terms of almost all measures of women …

Domestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic … examine the effect of women's employment on domestic violence using the Demographic and Health Survey in Ethiopia. To address … the endogeneity of women's employment decisions due to reverse causality, the study employs an Instrumental Variables …