municipalities with women councilors devote more resources to social investments. In particular, women politicians prioritize …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

We estimate the community-level impact of foreign aid projects on women's empowerment in the country with the most … on an index of female agency and women's sexual and fertility preferences. Gender-targeted aid has a further positive … impact on women's sexual and fertility preferences, and more tentatively on an index focusing on gender-based violence …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

women's labor force participation. The experience of the United States is studied in a comparative perspective relative to a … development affects the shape of women's labor supply …

The labor force participation rate of married women first declines and then rises as countries develop. Its þ-shape is … some point. This paper explores why the change takes place and why the þ-shape is traced out. When women are poorly … when women are educated, particularly at the secondary level, they enter white-collar work, against which no social stigma …