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 …

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 …

Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … equality between men and women …

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 …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women's wellbeing …