distribution-free bounds on welfare. We illustrate our results using experimental data on mosquito-net adoption in rural Kenya …

application of adult women's decisions to undertake mammography to evaluate the importance of present bias and naivety in the …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …

individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility affects women's behavior through three channels … age at first birth rises at an increasing rate with the productivity loss from children; and (iii) women of greater …

, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to … reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key human capital decisions, women in modern cohorts underestimate the … employment effects of motherhood in U.K. and U.S. data. We then provide evidence that women do not anticipate these effects. Upon …

incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …