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 …

-educated women (those with incomplete secondary education). However, progress has not been equal across all the countries in the … highly conservative norms about women's participation in work. …

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

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 …