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 …

variation in legal changes to women's property rights, we show that better property rights for women are associated with a … more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that … increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining …

This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …

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 …

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 …