2001, women's employment participation across South Asian countries has been low and broadly unchanged; (ii) the gender … countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and higher …

average, respectively. We test the added-worker effect theory - which posits that violence might increase FLFP as women try to … make up for lost household income - and find mixed evidence: greater prevalence of attacks may encourage married women to … exert more working hours, but when the environment gets more risky as number of dead and wounded people increase, all women …

given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies … weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in … effect of ideological predispositions and power on the efforts of the interest groups …

We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between … majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 …

the literature on executive pay: the manager power hypothesis and the efficient pay hypothesis. We find support for the … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …

vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed …

this study is its illustration of how the use of fiscal policy affects the local political power of legislators in Brazil …

five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces - justice, status, and power - and the subsequent …