While a growing literature has shown that women prefer investments in child welfare and increased redistribution …, little is known about the long-term effect of empowering women. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage … laws, we show that children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds who were exposed to women's political empowerment …

This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided American women a constitutional guarantee to … the franchise. We assemble data from a variety of sources to document and explore trends in women's political … participation, issue preferences, and partisanship since that time. We show that in the early years following enfranchisement, women …

women running and winning in mayoral elections. However, we show that this increase is entirely driven by female relatives …

result, women's suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in …

How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men's regarding the workplace, marriage, family … right to vote? The story begins with the civil rights movement and the somewhat fortuitous nature of the early and key women …'s rights legislation. The women's movement formed and pressed for further rights. Of the 155 critical moments in women's rights …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

particular implications for women's time use. In this paper, we document that current patterns of female time use in home … 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 …

In this paper we examine the economic and family determinants of married women's retirement behavior. A model of wives …' retirement decisions is developed and tested empirically using data on working married women. Estimated response parameters are …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

women …