In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

sense that women have a relatively high level of mobility, the effect of non‐religious school availability on attendance …

women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report … workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate … that individuals in workplaces where women are a majority tend to report worse health than individuals employed in male …

countries on four continents there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The … facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is …

women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …