-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 …

-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women …

women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing …

and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such … patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap is accounted for by women …'s lower probability of holding any science or engineering degree, because women with such a degree are scarcely more likely to …

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …