This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women … Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are …

increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher …

increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher …

marriage, as well as lower rates of divorce. This move is driven by women, not men. We document substantial long-run earnings … losses concentrated on women, and gender inequality increases. The gender-specific effects are due to a woman's ability to … give birth during a fixed period of life–her biological clock. Women have a higher reservation value for staying in the …

the legal right to divorce, historically advocated by women emancipation movements. …

fertility pressures on women, which favored late female marriages already in the pre-industrial era. The resulting family and … household patterns placed women into a better position to struggle for more gender equality during the subsequent transitions …

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women … women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double … difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions …

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous … setting. Women in British territories benefited from a universal education system and gained opportunities for paid employment …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their …