We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …

We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women’s awareness …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a …-production services. Immigrant labor has increasingly become a substitute for women labor in those services. Their presence, therefore …, may allow women over 55 to work more outside of the house and retire later. We use a unique database of Italian households …

Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female … entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women's attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully understood … access to credit on women's work; attitudes towards gender, social and employment norms; and psychosocial well-being. Access …

show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of …