women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … women, especially nonpatentees, were significantly more likely than men to be associated with innovations in consumer final … products or work outside the home pursued such improvements to benefit their families. The patterns suggest that framing women …

questions that measure knowledge of basic financial concepts, women are less likely than men to answer correctly and more likely … to indicate that they do not know the answer. In addition, women give themselves lower scores on financial literacy self …-assessments than men. Both young and old women show low levels of financial literacy. Moreover, women for whom financial knowledge is …

implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …-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 …

variation in legal changes to women's property rights, we show that better property rights for women are associated with a … more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that … increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining …

The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their … wives' incentives but that women are not responsive to their husbands' incentives and present evidence to suggest that this …

living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …

more likely to invent in a particular class if they grow up in an area with more women (but not men) who invent in that … schools. Consistent with the importance of exposure effects in career selection, women and disadvantaged youth are as under … – especially among women, minorities, and children from low-income families …