While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear … whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage laws, we …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Religion Predicting Fertility Behaviour of Young Women in Contemporary GermanyReligion in contemporary Germany is … values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth … Catholic, Protestant, Muslim or non‐religious shapes fertility patterns of young women in contemporary Germany. The paper …