We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on food? Second, are there gender inequalities in the distribution …

We analyze the evolution of the gender wage gap in Mexico between 1989 and 2012, a period in which skill … substantial gender wage convergence in the decade of the 2000s at the mean and, more markedly, at the upper and lower ends of the … wage distribution, alongside little change in the median wage gap. The gender wage gap at the 90th percentile was largely …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in …

increases in parental investment, and modest but transitory improvements in child's socioemotional skills. A descriptive … productivity of maternal mental health in the first 12 months of life. It moved outcomes for depressed women closer to outcomes for … women not depressed during pregnancy. …

This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the … regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important …

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

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. …

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

IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is … limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo … health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …