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

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

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 …

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. …

once governed by the Papacy have lower female labor market participation and employment than their counterparts in Tuscany …

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 …

periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … decrease in the female labor force participation rate over the last two decades. Moreover, existing analysis and the anecdotal …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in … women in agriculture but not men. It has no effect on the fertility of young women living in non-agricultural households, or …. These findings validate the marginal cost hypothesis whereby drought, by reducing the value of women's agricultural labor …

In this paper we analyze the factors that explain attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in … the international ones: approval of IPVAW is higher among women, people in rural areas, people in a disadvantaged socio … since the enactment of women’s suffrage. The most novel contribution of our work is the study of the variables at country …