reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …

Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages, focusing on differences by gender. We … find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much … married women workers less able to change their industry of employment than other workers. We find some support for an …

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 …

We study how reported sexism in the population affects American women. Fixed-effects and TSLS estimates show that …-based discrimination by men, and non-labor market outcomes through the influence of current norms of other women.Institutional subscribers …

After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many rich countries …, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to … reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key human capital decisions, women in modern cohorts underestimate the …

countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …

Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory … predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in …