across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

community HIV prevalence. We show that HIV-infected women have significantly lower fertility. In contrast to Young (2005 …), however, we find that local community HIV prevalence has no significant effect on non-infected women's fertility …

Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … conditions change. Norms about marriage patterns, living arrangements and the productive role of women are associated with … contemporary violence. Second, women’s contemporary economic role affects violence in a complex way which is itself related to …

women's issues, as measured by score in the quot;Congressional Record on Choicequot; issued by NARAL Pro-Choice America. In …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … that the program empowered women in various dimensions, including higher labor force participation and employment, higher …

liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the … corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these … the larger set of women employed in the companies subject to the quota. Moreover, the reform had no clear impact on highly …

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …