fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …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 …