nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … preferences of spouses diverge, and support the view that empowering women in developing countries should lead to more future …

registered partnership are equally discriminated in comparison to the heterosexual women in the city of Munich, no discrimination …

Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently …. Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect … that most of the additional workload associated to COVID-19 falls on women while childcare activities are more equally …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also … decline made feasible by the introduction of antibiotics was significantly greater in states that had longer exposure to women …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we … timing in women's spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …