across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

and women to become board nominees, and that it did not lead to new female board nominees being of lower quality than male …

about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa … particular implications for women's time use. In this paper, we document that current patterns of female time use in home …

community HIV prevalence. We show that HIV-infected women have significantly lower fertility. In contrast to Young (2005 …), however, we find that local community HIV prevalence has no significant effect on non-infected women's fertility …

Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … conditions change. Norms about marriage patterns, living arrangements and the productive role of women are associated with … contemporary violence. Second, women's contemporary economic role affects violence in a complex way which is itself related to …

through women, as in matrilineal kinship systems, or men, as in patrilineal kinship systems. Anthropologists hypothesized that … matrilineal kinship systems benefit women because they have greater support from their kin and husbands have less authority over … OLS and a geographic regression discontinuity design along the matrilineal belt in Africa. Using over 50 DHS survey …

women's issues, as measured by score in the "Congressional Record on Choice" issued by NARAL Pro-Choice America. In the …