This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in … the female brain drain ratio. This is consistent with, at low levels of women's rights, prohibitively high costs of …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the labor market. Macroeconomic …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

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 …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

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 …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men’s incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women’s legal rights set the marital …

This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in … the female brain drain ratio. This is consistent with, at low levels of women's rights, prohibitively high costs of …

Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female … force participation in Iran. Policy implications are discussed. …