confronting women throughout the world--including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining … social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism ….Mukesh Eswaran examines how women's behavioral responses in economic situations and their bargaining power within the household …

The transformation of women's lives in the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching social and … economic phenomena, affecting not only women, but also their partners and children. This Handbook provides the first … into three broad sections-marriage and fertility; the labor market; and special topics and policy issues. Separate and …

the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …, employment, and timing of first births after World War II. We find that the diffusion of the pill might have played an important … role in explaining the observed rise in female education and employment since the 1960s. But without equal opportunities …

differential effects of women's ability and charm on female match incentives. We use these results to assess the separate impacts … of the arrival of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and the advent of the contraceptive pill on female …