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

Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous … secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women …

productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …

the implications of these investigations on college enrollment, particularly for women. We combine institution-level panel … data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college … enrollment. We estimate that enrollment of women at colleges under Title IX investigation declined by 16 to 22 percent. The …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have …

two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant …The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … employment among women in Turkey, with increasing intensities identified among some groups of women. Our findings also cast light …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity …