, empirical evidence indicates consistent overrepresentation of women, including many single mothers, among payday loan borrowers …. This takes a toll not only on these women and their families, but also on society as a whole. Indeed, context matters in … payday lending debates. It is thus time to think creatively and consider contextualized programs that aim to increase women …

committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives …, measured in terms of earnings and probability of arrest. We observe that women obtain on average 32% less criminal earnings and …