This paper discusses whether the Asian financial crisis affected men and women differently in Indonesia by estimating … the effect of district consumption shock during the crisis on changes in men's and women's working status and assets. I … consumption increases women's employment and decreases men’s non-business assets. The effect is both cases is large. I also found …

We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from … large degree of spatial variation in both attitudes and actions of violence against women. Using rich individual survey and … high-resolution georeferenced data, we find systematically less violence against women in traditionally sea-fishing areas …

In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by …

We examine a public goods game in 83 communities in northern Liberia. Women contributed substantially more to a small …-scale development project when playing with other women than in mixed-gender groups, where they contributed at about the same levels as …. Results suggest women in the all-women condition put more weight on co-operation regardless of value of public good, fear of …

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it … longer exposure to women's suffrage. …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last 20 years. While there is … evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there … competitive elections to India's state legislative assemblies, exploiting close elections between men and women to isolate the …

,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …, particularly for female-headed households. Women continue to bear a greater burden of responsibility for income …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …