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 …

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 …

This paper argues that before World War II the desire to maintain a trustworthy reputation for honoring war debts was … honoring in full of war debts following World War II. The discussion focuses on differences in economic and political … conditions after World War II, especially the extension of the voting franchise, the increased economic and political power of …

This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … accounting/ budgetary frameworks. As of December 30, 2005, total spending for combat and support operations in Iraq is $251bn … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO …

war. For the war generation of women, the high demand for female labor brought about by mobilization leads to an increase … in labor supply that persists after the war. As a result, younger women who reach adulthood in the 1950s face increased …We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply during World War II. We …

the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … proportion of ever married women with eight years of schooling lowered number of pregnancies per woman by 0.13 and number of … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …