nonlinearity: an additional woman accelerates the expansion of child care only in councils with few women. Council meeting minutes … reveal that women can be effective in councils despite being a non-pivotal minority because they change "the conversation" …

found for women. In general, we find large differences between men and women, especially in the exact timing of the effects …

mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the labor market. Macroeconomic …

This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification … strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this … among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia. We match experimental data with a unique policy intervention (CCT …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive …

income process. The empirical application of our framework using data on individual incomes from Mexico provides striking …