the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …

women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …

This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of … capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital …-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital …

status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … change empirically, we focus on women aged 25 to 29 and children aged 7 to 16. For reasons that will be displayed during the … attendance and progress and women's participation in the labor market. In the absence of tailored indicators about progress in …

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