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

workloads. We show that the harsher grading policies in STEM courses disproportionately affect women. To show this, we estimate …

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the … history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …

reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …

find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much … married women workers less able to change their industry of employment than other workers. We find some support for an …-wage married women workers in their industry drop out of the labor market in response to their industry's loss of tariff. However …

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 …

We study how reported sexism in the population affects American women. Fixed-effects and TSLS estimates show that …-based discrimination by men, and non-labor market outcomes through the influence of current norms of other women.Institutional subscribers …

, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to … reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key human capital decisions, women in modern cohorts underestimate the … employment effects of motherhood in U.K. and U.S. data. We then provide evidence that women do not anticipate these effects. Upon …

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

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …