representative sample of women in the United States. Religious affiliation is found to have a significant impact on years of …

Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia … importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage … for educated women. We provide empirical evidence supporting our theoretical model and its implications, using datasets …

pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women …

labor market entry for young women in Senegal using a rich individual-level survey conducted in 2003. We use a multiple … of the women's parents …

While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … investments that are efficient. Given that the gender wage gap narrows with the level of education, women's labor-market return …

impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being …