We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...

We study the formation of social and emotional skills in the first three years of life, and investigate the impact of a cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The intervention significantly improved maternal mental health,...

We examine how women's employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. We posit that this relationship is strongest for households with low earning capacity whose consumption-leisure tradeoff crosses a threshold as women go to work. Using WWII...

We examine how women’s employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. Using World War II factories and male casualty rates to instrument for female labor demand, we find that the rise in women’s labor force participation between 1940 and 1950...

We examine how women’s employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. Using World War II factories and male casualty rates to instrument for female labor demand, we find that the rise in women’s labor force participation between 1940 and 1950...