We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women's financial empowerment and parenting … evaluate its long-run effects. We find that the intervention increased women's financial empowerment, increasing their control …

We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting … evaluate its long-run effects. We find that the intervention increased women’s financial empowerment, increasing their control …

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 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also … decline made feasible by the introduction of antibiotics was significantly greater in states that had longer exposure to women …

rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence … which women have more limited access to divorce than men …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in …