attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative …

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …

women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

In low- and middle-income countries, differences between men and women in their time use patterns represent a major … paper examines the impact of the 2017 flood in Bangladesh on men's and women's time use patterns and women's empowerment …. Using georeferenced and longitudinal data, we find that the flood decreased women's time spent on domestic work while …

-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …, particularly for women …

We develop a model that nests previous explanations for women under-representation in positions of power. Focusing on …

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their … empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an …

We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women's financial empowerment and parenting … evaluate its long-run effects. We find that the intervention increased women's financial empowerment, increasing their control …