microsimulation model to updated earlier projections of Social Security retirement benefits for married women. Changes in women … earnings. For many of those women, benefits based on their own earnings record will account for most (91–92 percent) of their …

The preference of microfinance institutions for women borrowers is generally attributed to two reasons: women borrowers … women more in low trust countries, suggesting that women are targeted to offset low social trust. We also examine how the …

For decades, policymakers have discussed how to remedy the high poverty rates of older widows. Yet older divorced women … larger share of retired women will be divorced. This article uses the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the … Near Term (version 6) to project the retirement resources and well-being of divorced women. We find that Social Security …

share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are ….We interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries’ domestic laws have prevented women from … reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women’s economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal … reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy—along with the …

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

the above issues in one framework. The results show that good health raises wages for both women and men. I find the …This paper investigates the effects of health on wages by controlling for a number of problems: first, the unobservable … genetic endowment may cause an omitted variable bias; second, using a self-reported health variable could induce measurement …

This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood- levels and trajectories of … education, poor childhood health has a quantitatively large effect on all these outcomes. Moreover, these estimated effects are …