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 …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

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 …

In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women to reach a white collar high skill job, also in the more protected public … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …

namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …

relationship between motherhood and labor market outcomes for women. Besides using conventional measures of motherhood such as … come up with a new measure of motherhood that we call extra children. We reckon that often women's decision to join … labor market. We find that the extra children variable has a stronger negative impact on women's labor market outcomes than …