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 …

trade facilitation has serious implications not just for women's empowerment but also for productivity and growth potential … the challenges and impediments faced by women in engaging in cross-border trade, with particular emphasis on demonstrating …

probability weighting, we explore whether receiving a georeferenced cadastral map of ones parcel provides women with increased … affected womens time use, as beneficiary women spent more hours working in non-agricultural activities, investing in their own …, which enables women to increase their bargaining power within the household in order to improve their own and the family …

This paper examines the effect of women's effective land ownership on female empowerment and household food security in … ownership of plots provides women with increased bargaining power, empowering them to participate more actively in productive … informal land ownership on women's empowerment, we do find that owning land significantly decreases the daily time dedicated to …

Violence has a striking gender pattern. Men are more likely to be attacked by a stranger, while women experience … violence mostly from their partners. This paper estimates the costs of violence against women in terms of intangible outcomes …, such as women’s reproductive health, labor supply, and the welfare of their children. The study uses a sample of nearly 83 …

Violence against women (VAW) is only beginning to be recognized as a major societal problem within and across Asia …. This is evidenced by the high level of self-reporting by men and women of sexual violence and domestic violence in recent … particularly via the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the pressure exerted …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …