of women and their families. The authors study the pervasive marriage custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a bride …

This paper documents the positive link between the noncognitive skills of women farmers and the adoption of a cash crop … is not explained by differences across women in education and cognitive skills. It is also not explained by the fact that … women with higher noncognitive ability tend to be married to husbands of higher noncognitive ability and education. The …

associated with female entrepreneurship (that is, a firm being managed and at least partly owned by women), along with other … entrepreneurship rises with foreign direct investment inflow, lower entry barriers for women, women's better access to finance, higher … female labor force participation, and women's better education. The positive association of foreign direct investment inflow …

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …

This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest …