This paper examines the impact of the secondary school stipend program for female students on student enrolment in Bangladesh. After a brief description of the stipend program, we examine both nationwide and project-level data on student enrolment. While the former data show little identifiable...

We study how the large and unexpected increase in the minimum wage in Poland impacted the gender wage gap. For this purpose, we employ a distribution regression model coupled with a difference-in-differences estimator that recovers changes in the gender wage gap with minimum assumptions on the...

This paper addresses gender equality in Cuba, tracing its development from the days of the revolution to present day with an emphasis on women working in the field of law. This article is being published by the Florida Bar International Law Section Journal for its Spring 2016 edition, and is...

This paper reviews several decades of empirical research on the effects of women's work on investments in children's human capital - their nutrition and schooling - in developing countries. No clear relationship between women's work and nutrition emerges from a large body of studies examining...

Not only the quantity of formal daycare provision for young children, but also its quality has become an issue of political concern. This experimental study investigates how a hypothetical improvement in the quality of daycare facilities shapes normative judgements regarding daycare use and...

This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and because most European and American households with...

Lack of adequate childcare is a main reason women cite for not participating in the labor force. We investigate the effect of a reform that lengthened school schedules from half to full days in Chile - essentially providing zero-cost childcare - on different maternal labor participation...

This study explores the relationship between women heads-of-state and their impact on Human Development in their country. Mainly, the intent of this paper is to determine whether women heads-of-state do a better job as compared to their male counterparts in improving health, education and...

We analyze the representation of women on the faculties of US business schools over the period 2002 to 2009. While women are a distinct minority on the faculties of US business schools, their ranks are increasing. At the end of our sample period, 25.3% of faculty members are women, up from 20.0%...

We propose a theoretical framework in which a university sets its paid parental leave length to balance the costs of providing the paid leave against the cost savings from higher female faculty retention. The theory has implications for the decision to offer a paid leave policy as well as the...