Kenya (Haushofer and Shapiro 2016). Here we report detailed impacts of these transfers on physical and sexual intimate … partner violence, and construct a theory to explain them. Transfers to women averaging USD 709 reduced physical and sexual …: physical violence towards non-recipient women in treatment villages decreased (-0:16 SD). We show theoretically that transfers …

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

altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …

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 …

an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women and women with children, this effect is … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable … enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of …

women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing …