school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in … hold manufacturing jobs, and miss one fewer meal per week. Women who were in treatment schools as girls are approximately …

United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …

household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours …

countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in …

While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear … whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage laws, we …

effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …

. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school …