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 …

, 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. …

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 …