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 …

the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … proportion of ever married women with eight years of schooling lowered number of pregnancies per woman by 0.13 and number of … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

This paper estimates the effects of educational attainment and school quality on crime among American women. Using …, and teacher salaries) on incarceration and arrests. Finally, we show that the effects of education on crime for women are …

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 …

. 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 …

impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being …

of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …

years of life for both men and women for cohorts born 1906-1915. This association is close to linear but exhibits strong … association is stronger in places with greater incomes, higher quality of school, and larger investments in public health. Women …

participation. The results we present are particularly relevant to many countries in the Muslim world where 70-80 percent of women … compromise children quality, larger role for women in family decision making, less religiosity, and positive attitude towards …

educational gender gap and the increased labor force participation rate (LFPR) of married women. We hypothesize that the education …. Therefore, an increase in the labor force participation rate of married women may narrow and even reverse the educational gender … married women in the previous generation at the U.S. state level. We then propose a model that generates a novel prediction …