experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women and women with children, this effect is … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable … enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of …

life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men … and 25. Both males and females lived longer as the burden of infectious disease fell, but women were more greatly impacted …. Our explanation does not tell us why women live longer than men, but it does help understand the timing of their relative …

women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … women, especially nonpatentees, were significantly more likely than men to be associated with innovations in consumer final … products or work outside the home pursued such improvements to benefit their families. The patterns suggest that framing women …

-2016. Over the period from 2013-2016, women made up 20.6 percent of all authors on scheduled papers. However, there was large … women rose slightly from 18.5% since 2001-2004, a persistent gap between finance, macroeconomics and microeconomics … subfields remains, with women consisting of 14.4 percent of authors in finance, 16.3 percent of authors in macroeconomics, and …

living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …

This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification … strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this … among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia. We match experimental data with a unique policy intervention (CCT …

The modern economic role of women emerged in four phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary … women's choices distinguish the evolutionary from the revolutionary phases: horizon, identity, and decision-making. The … time-series evidence on women's more predictable attachment to the workplace, greater identity with career, and better …