market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

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 …

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

Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in …

war on women's employment decisions. Results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency, women's employment …This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using … probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996. These employment results also hold …

military data, we show that county-level exposure to U.S. combat casualties during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars decreased the …