While female property ownership is associated with positive outcomes for women, their right to inherit property in male …

This paper examines the contextual and community-level determinants of multidimensional women's empowerment in Egypt …, while accounting for the usual individual and household level factors typically included in studies of women's empowerment …. The paper analyzes two dimensions of women's empowerment: the decision-making and the mobility dimensions by means of two …

Conditions we first show that high income married or cohabiting women do twice as much housework as single women in Southern … with respect to relative wages. We thus present positive evidence for the presence of a “second-shift” that women face in …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men …

women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women … by an improvement in marriage market negotiations and this led to women marrying partners that consume less alcohol …

Little is known about self-employment as a career choice for women who marry a high-income spouse. We show that Swedish … women who are married to a high-income spouse are, on average, highly educated and more likely to pursue self … likelihood of self-employment before and after marriage for women who marry a spouse in the top 1, 0.5 and 0.1 percent to those …

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 …

of men to women in marriage markets – on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …

Almost half of missing women in India are of post-reproductive ages. I show that intra-household gender inequality and … gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link … women's intra-household bargaining power to their mortality risk. Using a structural model of households, I estimate the age …