Legalization of abortion in the 1970s represents a major cultural change: it gives women a higher degree of freedom to … analyzed through its direct consequences on fertility and fertility technology, primarily on women actually experiencing an … women that face abortion as an actual opportunity, without necessarily experiencing one. I focus on the indirect effect of …

, albeit only for women. Women in a better than normal mood tend to exhibit mood-congruent behavior, i.e. they weight … criterion. Only a negligible number of women do so. …

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 …

municipalities with women councilors devote more resources to social investments. In particular, women politicians prioritize …