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 …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on …

panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender … composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were …

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New … relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit … gender differences in preferences to promote technology adoption absent broader social change …

Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential … explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women … parameters suggest an explanation: women are more likely to be on the margin of giving, partly because of a less dispersed …

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in …

Why aren't there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to … randomly assigned to professors over a wide variety of mandatory standardized courses. We focus on the role of professor gender …. Our results suggest that while professor gender has little impact on male students, it has a powerful effect on female …