Every day, three women are murdered in the United States by a current or former partner. Yet policy action to prevent … crimes against women in the developing world. This paper investigates whether the election of a female politician reduces the …

We estimate the community-level impact of foreign aid projects on women's empowerment in the country with the most … on an index of female agency and women's sexual and fertility preferences. Gender-targeted aid has a further positive … impact on women's sexual and fertility preferences, and more tentatively on an index focusing on gender-based violence …

We document an increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Sweden during the first wave of the Covid …

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 …

Despite some progress, women are still disadvantaged on the labour market. While most policies – pay transparency …, awareness raising or anti-discrimination legislation – address the pay gaps between men and women in the same job, less … attention is generally given to men and women working in different jobs. Crucially, such segregation is large and can actually …