Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on … the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation …. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed effects strategy … approach and a border-analysis. Our findings indicate that a one standard deviation increase in sexual crimes per 1000 women …

This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women … contribution, which led to sharply different slopes of benefits for similar women to the left and to the right of the kink point … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade …

This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women … in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find that women legislators are less likely to be criminal and …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression …

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It … among women by nativity, urbanization, and region of the country. While foreign-born and illiterate women were more likely … greater the slave-intensity of the county, the less likely were free women to report having an occupation, particularly as …

evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women to reach a white-collar high skill job, also in the more protected public … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …