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 …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we find that women are less likely than men to have access to any … young women are more likely to have access to specifically designated paid parental leave, even in part-time jobs. Both …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

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 …

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the … history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor%u2019s degree, but were 39 … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women%u2019s college completion rate. Behind these … changes were several others: the future work expectations of young women increased greatly between 1968 and 1979 and the age …

We examine whether women and men of the same ability differ in their decisions to seek challenges. In the laboratory … performance, men choose the hard task about 50 percent more frequently than women, independent of performance level. Gender … choice high performing women choose the hard task significantly more often, at a rate now similar to the decision of men …

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with … Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages … status quo). Women in a random subset of villages were also trained on account use. In the short run, relative to women just …