It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from … reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy-along with the …

Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child … marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the … first to quantify the relationship between child marriage and economic growth. Applying a simultaneous equations model, the …

liquidity constraints, the temporal change in family income (exclusive of wives'' earnings) reinforces the substitution effect …

specifications. The findings of this paper support the long-standing view that women empowerment contributes to the reduction of …

adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs' ability to access formal finance, leaving them to rely on informal sources … gender gaps in financial access. Results suggest that an increase in women entrepreneurs access to formal credit results in …

Statistics indicate that the economic and social development of women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA … policies on the economic and social welfare of women in the region. On the expenditure side, we test the explanatory power of … for MENA women are not explained by the amount of government social spending, suggesting the answer lies in the efficiency …

declining women's relative wages and labor force participation in China during the last two decades, despite rapid growth and … economic development and women's labor market outcomes. Using a model of structural transformation, we show that labor market … barriers for women have increased over time. Model counterfactuals suggest that removing these barriers and increasing service …