women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM … participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work …

assign women and men to jobs and occupations.The investigation of a subsample of performance pay workers for whom we are able …

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … association with women's empowerment while other variables such as residence and the age at first marriage were negatively …

regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find that women's mental health is worse than men's along the four metrics we collected … data on, that women are more concerned about getting and spreading the virus, and that women perceive the virus as more … prevalent and lethal than men do. Women are also more likely to expect a new lockdown or virus outbreak by the end of 2020, and …

labour force participation of women, without reducing the fertility rate, is needed. In the year 2000, with the aim of … increasing women's labour market participation, a partial individualisation of the Irish income tax system was initiated. Using … on female labour supply and caring duties. I find that the labour force participation rate of married women increased by …

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 …

candidacy. Studying mechanisms, we find that women are likely held back by incompatibilities between family obligations and …

), policymakers often propose providing women with close mentoring by female scientists. This is based on the idea that female … advisor gender on women's STEM degree attainment. We exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to academic … or advising by female scientists can play an important role in promoting women's participation and persistence in STEM …