in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply …

. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point … where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …

empirical evidence shows that bad but dedicated politicians come along with good but not fully committed politicians. There is …

politicians' rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House …

We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate …